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The Daily Misinformer: The Punch Up · Mar 28, 2023 · 50 min

New Tiktok Challenge: Congress

Lawmakers grilled TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Chew, about the app’s ties to China in a Congressional hearing that lasted for five hours. Damn, the only thing that’s a bigger waste of five hours is actually scrolling TikTok. TikTok CEO says it wasn’t ‘spying’ when ByteDance employees surveilled journalists. He went on to say “I think there’s a mistranslation. I didn’t mean to say spying. In America, I believe you call it steeling your data. Watch the full video of this podcast at Patreon.com/thedailymisinformer

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Lawmakers grilled TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Chew, about the app’s ties to China in a Congressional hearing that lasted for five hours. Damn, the only thing that’s a bigger waste of five hours is actually scrolling TikTok. TikTok CEO says it wasn’t ‘spying’ when ByteDance employees surveilled journalists. He went on to say “I think there’s a mistranslation. I didn’t mean to say spying. In America, I believe you call it steeling your data.


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