News JVTech Mental health and espionage: the standoff between the United States and TikTok intensifies
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The month of January will clearly not have been a long calm river for TikTok. After a first clarification in Europe, it is now the United States’ turn to hold the Chinese application to account!
TikTok keeps getting in trouble
The year 2023 has only started a month ago, and it already smells like big problems for TikTok in the United States. After the passage of a law banning the Chinese social network on the devices of American officials and the complaint filed by Seattle Public Schools, Now it’s TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s turn to get grilled by the US Congress.
A new interview for the Singaporean entrepreneur who had already met with the European authorities a few weeks ago to defend his social network. At the end of this exchange, Vera Jourova, in charge of values and transparency, said that the social network should do “an extra effort” to “regaining the trust of European regulators”. On the other hand, it’s a safe bet that the US Congress will not be so “lenient” with Shou Zi Chew next March…
Mental health and espionage: the United States wants real explanations
As you know, the video sharing application is of great concern to the American authorities, whether at the level of the app’s impact on children or the platform’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. And it is mainly for these reasons that Shou Zi Chew will be heard in Washington on March 23.. Yesterday, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the head of a powerful House of Representatives committee behind the hearing, said: “Americans have a right to know what impact these actions have on their privacy. »
But now, as we explained above, the United States seems visibly more determined, than Europe, to put a spoke in the wheels of TikTok. To tell you, Mike Gallagher, a Republican MP, recently called the social network a “digital fentanyl”. And the increased weight in Congress of the Republicans, who now hold the majority in the House, risks further complicating the situation for the platform.
Beyond the health problems that TikTok causes on the youngest, it is especially espionage that worries the Americans. You probably know this, but China/US relations are not really looking good. Conservative elected officials even accuse TikTok of being a tool of espionage and propaganda in the service of Beijing. As much, to tell you that it smells a little scorched for the social network across the Atlantic. Shou Zi Chew will therefore have to find the right words during his hearing in Congress on March 23, so as not to see his social network being removed from all American smartphones.
