popular apps tiktok, the company s ceo, testified on capitol hill for hours this week amid security concerns about the platform. some lawmakers are also worried about the way social media can facilitate bullying and harassment and lead to mental health concerns for some young users. children and teens are particularly vulnerable, frequent online use of interactive media on digital devices is associated with increased levels of depression among middle and high school students. research has found the tic tacs addictive algorithms recommend videos, two teams that create and exacerbate feelings of emotional distress, including videos, promoting suicide, self harm and eating disorders. and to top it all off. artificial intelligence is now impacting the online space chat. gpt has stunned users with its ability to provide lengthy and thorough if sometimes inaccurate answers to questions and prompts. for more on this. i m joined by judith donath, faculty fellow at berkman center at harvard
he hasn t. and that he doesn t really see that project . texas is going to be useful. now, this is ludicrous. at any time of day or night now. and a year from now, president or any ccp official can demand user data and he ll be given user data. in fact, even chu couldn t deny that top staff by dance are, in fact members of the communist party. logic would tell us that there are a fair number of your employees are members of the chinese communist party. at least a dozen or so who have access to this data? isn t that so? again, like i said, i can ask one or two people we don t have a policy, does it? because it s so easy now, even though we knew that china was stealing user data, we ve allowed tic tacs reach to metastasize. now there are a staggering one hundred and fifty million tiktok users in the united states . mr. chu is bragging about that
staff at tiktok itself. now they re even worse, refusing to answer simple questions about the persecution of religious minorities in china. do you agree that the chinese government has persecuted the weaker population? if you use up and you open it, you will find our users who get all sorts. not my question. well, is deeply concerning to hear about all accounts of human rights abuse from the u.s.. so, yes, it s a pretty easy question. congressman, i m here to discuss it, but to talk what we do as a platform, well, indifferent, shared by folks like michael beckerman, tic tacs, head of public policy. now, you saw him sitting behind mr. chu today at the hearing with a very smug, self-satisfied look on his face. well, here he was three months ago on cnn. do you acknowledge the chinese government has these figures and others in concentrated concentration? look, i saw something that i that i focus on . we work for a chinese
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this. what is america lose by forcing the cell to an american company? it s not like we want massive chinese companies to invest in the united states. we have plenty of places we can go for foreign direct investment. we can go to europe. we could go to india. we can go to japan, south korea. china has been totally un reciprocal. we have a 450 billion trade deficit with china. they have taken so much of our manufacturing base. they don t play fair and now they may have access to data of millions of our young people. i saw that the tic tacs ceo said. well they re not majority are over 18 but majority maybe between 18 and 24. he s parsing numbers. this needs to be an american company that controls this. china has responded for the first time to the administration s ultimatum that either sell to an american company as you re talking about or be banned in china, the chinese government spokesperson for the chinese government told the wall street journal today this if the news is true of a