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
valuable property, so our concern is not, you know. just with, um you know, necessarily the app itself, but it s more about the ownership structure well, and that needs to change is this then a leverage play is the is the hope here that by threatening to ban tiktok, you force a sale. but the hope is that congress will take action and again. we re trying to work with our colleagues to use our bill. you senator warner s bill , which brings up this broader issue of cross border data flows, and the process chairman , mike mccaul bill and see if we can come to a common sense compromise where congress is speaking with one voice on this issue, not just defer to the executive branch. what we believe the citius process could or i believe the serious process could force a sale or a ban. there s some debate about that. but it s always better in my opinion with congress acts and doesn t just depend on the executive branch, congressman christian marty real quick. how likely do you think a ban is? i
about alienating some teenagers on this app. it s a national security issue. we have to deal with it before it s too late. and by the way, can i just jump in? i really i strongly doubt this apps going to go dark. it s going to get sold to another company because it s a very valuable property. so our concern is not, you know. just with, um you know, necessarily the app itself, but it s more about the ownership structure well, and that needs to change is this then a leverage play is the is the hope here that by threatening to ban tiktok, you force a sale. but the hope is that congress will take action and again. we re trying to work with our colleagues to use our bill. you senator warner s bill, which brings up this broader issue of cross border data flows , and the process chairman mike mccall s bill and see if we can come to a common sense compromise where congress is speaking with one voice on this issue, not just defer to the executive branch. what we believe the citius process could