TikTok CEO posts video asking customers for assist staving off ban from Congress

TikTok's CEO reached out to customers in hopes of convincing them that a nationwide ban on the app wouldn't be of their curiosity, a gesture made days earlier than his scheduled look earlier than Congress.

CEO Shou Zi Chew posted a video on Tuesday that includes him someplace in Washington, D.C. The manager of the China-affiliated app disclosed that the app has 150 million month-to-month lively customers in the USA and seven,000 workers. Chew additionally spoke in regards to the significance of TikTok to Individuals, then requested customers to put up within the feedback what they wished their representatives to find out about why they love TikTok. The Home Power and Commerce Committee is scheduled to listen to Chew's testimony on Thursday.

"This comes at a pivotal second for us," Chew informed customers, alluding to a number of efforts by Congress to ban the app. "This might take TikTok away from all 150 million of you."

TikTok had beforehand reported 100 million month-to-month lively customers in 2021. Chew's newest quantity suggests the app's market presence has grown shortly.

Congress has fixated on TikTok over claims that its father or mother firm, ByteDance, shares U.S. knowledge with the Chinese language Communist Get together, primarily based on Chinese language nationwide safety legal guidelines. ByteDance claims it has not shared such knowledge.

The Committee on Overseas Funding in the USA, an interdepartmental company that evaluations U.S. sanctions with worldwide companies, demanded that Chinese language father or mother firm ByteDance promote its stake in TikTok or danger being banned.

Members of Congress have put ahead a number of measures to limit TikTok within the U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has written a invoice to ban the app outright, and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has launched laws to supply additional powers to the Commerce Division to investigate and decide if choose enterprise offers are safety dangers.