TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, appeared to reach on the Capitol well-prepared.

Taking his seat earlier than dozens of Home Power and Commerce Committee members Thursday, he opened a packet of notes, diligently listed with sticky notes. Within the packet, there seemed to be a sheet matching the names and faces of the lawmakers getting ready to query him — lots of whom had already made up their minds over whether or not the app was protected for Individuals.

“Your platform must be banned,” Chair Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA) mentioned in her opening assertion Thursday. “I count on in the present day you’ll say something to keep away from this consequence.”

For greater than three years, TikTok has been working beneath the looming menace of a nationwide ban. However what was as soon as a GOP-led marketing campaign…

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