TikTok CEO to promise US Congress no user info sharing with Chinese government

Chew Shou Zi vowed to firewall protect US user data from unauthorised foreign access and grant access to third-party independent monitors. - AFP

WASHINGTON ⁠(The Straits Times/Asia News Network): TikTok is not beholden to the Chinese government and will not share information about American users with it, the social media app’s chief executive is expected to promise the United States Congress at a crucial hearing on Thursday (March 23).

Chew Shou Zi will make the case to lawmakers that banning the app will hurt American small businesses and damage the country’s economy, as well as impinge on the freedom of speech of its more than 150 million US users, according to his prepared testimony released on Tuesday night ahead of the hearing in Washington.