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• @karlbode Karl Bode on x

  It is gaslighting. The government doesn't want you focused on their corrupt failure to pass a data privacy law, or their refusal regulate data brokers who help them avoid getting warrants https://twitter.com/...

• @kevincollier Kevin Collier on x

  For the people who have advocated fruitlessly for years for the US to have any substantial data privacy law, it has to feel like gaslighting to see the country's national security apparatus finally focus on what TikTok collects and then conclude the answer is to ban that one app.

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Congress: Facebook is too powerful. Also Congress: We should ban Facebook's fastest-growing rival.

• @jchengwsj Jonathan Cheng on x

  Sen. Marco Rubio: “The evidence against TikTok's Chinese-controlled parent company, ByteDance, is overwhelming, which makes this a high-risk hearing for the company and its defenders.” Any stumble, he added, “will increase calls for a ban.” @johndmckinnon https://www.wsj.com/...

• @grady_trimble Grady Trimble on x

  House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) will not hold back at today's hearing with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. Here's some of what she'll say. https://twitter.com/...

• @hshaban Hamza Shaban on x

  A visual timeline of how TikTok got here, a journey leading to today's Congressional hearing with CEO Shou Chew https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @rachelvscott Rachel Scott on x

  In just about an hour — the CEO of TikTok will come before the very lawmakers who want to ban the wildly popular app. Inside the hearing room - https://twitter.com/...

• @wolfejosh Josh Wolfe on x

  Congressional question for TikTok CEO: 1/ With such widespread influence bringing joy to people why has TikTok blocked videos about human rights in China—particularly those that on Xinjiang internment camps and Uyghur genocide—disabling accounts of users who post them? https://tw…

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on x

  Today, members of Congress who have never used TikTok will be calling for the ban of a free-expression platform used by 150 million across the U.S. We're covering it all here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @natesilver538 Nate Silver on x

  In polling, a plurality of voters actually support a TikTok ban. That isn't necessarily dispositive to what the political reaction would be. But I'd trust it before some hand-waving notion that OMG GEN Z WILL BE SO MAD AND WE HAVE TO APPEAL TO THE YOUTHS. https://www.washingtonpo…

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on x

  Republican in Texas who doesn't use TikTok: I “want some type of real justification before they decide to ban it other than just saying simply, the Chinese government is spying on us. There are so many more issues ... that need to be addressed” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @adrierising Adrie Rose on x

  they're gonna ban tiktok for privacy but the book company turned shipping conglomerate slash pharmacy slash consumer tech company slash home security company slash largest cloud service provider in the country can turn over your home security footage to the cops without so much a

• @viacristiano Cristiano Lima on x

  NEW: A @washingtonpost poll finds more Americans support than oppose a TikTok ban, with a majority having concerns about its ties to China But the biggest decider for who backs backs a ban? Whether they use the app @heatherkelly & I break it all down: https://www.washingtonpost.c…

• @liqian_ren Liqian Ren on x

  “2012, he visited...equivalent of a Silicon Valley garage: an apt in Beijing's univ. district. Thirty people, ..., crammed in to develop an app that suggested news articles to people based on factors such as how much time they spent on previous stories.” https://www.wsj.com/...

• @jchengwsj Jonathan Cheng on x

  “The hardest physical experience of his life, he said, was the military's five-day survival course in Brunei's jungles. He built a hut, cooked wild yams and trekked 55 miles.” @stuwoo https://www.wsj.com/...

• @stuwoo Stu Woo on x

  Who is Shou Chew? The 40-year-old TikTok CEO walked me through his fast-rising career and game plan for Congress. He was less forthright about whether he killed a quail barehanded during Singaporean army survival training. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @wsj @wsj on x

  TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says his company is offering the U.S. government more concessions and oversight than any business in history. His background may now help him connect with a skeptical American Congress. https://www.wsj.com/...