thursday, march 23rd eight am here in london, four am in washington, where in just a few hours, us lawmakers will hear the ceo of tiktok fight back against the government push to ban the app across the country is expected to argue that both tiktok and its parent company are not agents for china s government. the ceos. 10 page prepared statement shows he plans to update lawmakers on steps taken to keep data from american users secure despite fears beijing could ask for access. tiktok ceo has made his answer clear in the past. the chinese government has actually never asked us for us user data , and we have said this on the record that even if we were asked for that we will not provide that. more than 150. million american users alone used the app every month. some have said a ban whatever profound effects on the user s freedom of speech content creators joined a new new york