americans on tiktok tiktok ceo grilled on capitol hill lawmakers look to ban the platform. tiktok is a weapon by the chinese communist party to spy on you. first of all disagree with the characterization that is spying and warned of possible mental health impacts for kids. kids your technology is literally leading to death. tonight we ll talk to popular tiktokers about why they log on. i m asking politicians don t take away the community that we have all built and answer your questions. what data elements are being collected. teens are finding ways around all these parental controls. cnn prime time is time up for tiktok. good evening. i m abby phillip. it s one of the most popular social media apps on the planet , and it is also one of the most controversial a billion monthly active users over 150 million right here in the united states. they shoot and they share videos on tiktok for fun or they watch them and others earn entire incomes through it. so many of the nations were
note that the us has provided no public evidence that china is, in fact using us user data to spy and surveil americans, but it s also important to talk about the fact that both democrats and republicans are united on this issue. so where do we go from here? this hearing large probably made it more possible for legislators to come up with something that would possibly restrict severely tiktok. here in the us as far as a ban or sale of tiktok. those are more on unlikely a ban would likely face legal challenges just that it just as it did with the trump ministrations in 2020 and a sale well, if bite dance, even allowed the sale. that would be quite expensive for us. buyer abby. your guess is as good as mine. yeah. i mean, it is. there are billions of dollars tied up in that vanessa, your cave, which thank you very much. now the focus on today s
would be quite expensive for us. buyer abby. your guess is as good as mine. yeah. i mean, it is. there are billions of dollars tied up in that vanessa, your cave, which thank you very much. now the focus on today s hearing in washington was washington and tiktok 150. million people across the united states use that apps. so what could all of this mean for them here to discuss? that is cara swisher, host of the podcast pivot. and on with kara swisher and the u. s. editor in chief of tech radar. lance ulanoff. karen want to start with you. look this was a tense hearing today to say the least. i want you to take a listen to. i think one of the key moments from today s hearing. do any bite dance employees in china, including engineers currently have access to user us user data. today all us user data is stored by default in the oracle cloud