in the more than five hour session about tiktok potentially harmful impacts on our children . the ranking member of the committee, citing research about algorithms that recommend videos to teens that promote suicide, self harm and even eating disorders. for much more on what went down and what s next for tiktok. let s bring in cnn s vanessa your cabbage. so vanessa the whole goal of this hearing today for tiktok was to convince lawmakers not to ban the app completely. so how did he do? he made a convincing argument, but he certainly did not convince lawmakers that tiktok doesn t have some connection to china. and this is a ceo who does not like the spotlight, but he was on one of the world s biggest stages today for 5.5 hours out of the gate he made did the argument that tiktok is not an agent of china, but that fell on deaf ears even before he started speaking, many of these lawmakers had already made up their minds. there was a few exchanges that were incredibly
mean, could you find another place to do what you re doing? yeah, i think the benefit with my businesses. i ve i ve really built out a full fledged business that stands on its own outside of tiktok. so i would lose half of my following. we have a little over two million followers. 1.2 mil of that is on tiktok, so i would take a hit. um i m pretty confident that i d be able to find ways to work around it. but what concerns me really is other small businesses that have not built a six figure business and that really rely on tiktok to make a living and ashley. look, tiktok. we ve been talking a lot about this big number 150 million users, but it s also become a place for uh , communities of color to find each other advocacy advocates. uh i think maybe you would consider yourself a little bit to be an advocate defined each other. so uh, tell us about that , so i consider myself to be an advocate. i m a creator. you can call me an activist and author and you know, for people like me
this idea of banning tiktok joining me now china committee chairman republican mike gallagher and also ranking member democrat raja krishnamoorthi congressman both of you, thank you. for being here. a congressman gallagher. i want to start with you. look the tiktok ceo to said today on capitol hill that tiktok is not an agent of the chinese government. they ve also proposed this plan. they re calling it project texas that would take americans data bring it to the united states. put it on a firewall, basically protecting it from anyone in china who might want to gain access to it. so my question to you is why does that not assuage your concerns about how tiktok is handling this data? because project texas, which we ve reviewed and been met with tiktok to discuss project texas doesn t really address the core issue, which is control of the algorithm and so long as bytedance, which is the parent company that owns tiktoker, which is effectively controlled
crystals enough for up to 40 windows. just pay a separate fee call or go online now. i m melanie s nana in washington, and this is cnn. china is slamming the u. s for considering a ban on tiktok. but it s worth pointing out that china doesn t even allow tiktok at home. what they ve got instead is this heavily censored version of the app, and it s allowing chinese state media to push some rather ironic and inflammatory messages about the united states. cnn s selena wang offers a closer look. pressure is building again in washington to ban tiktok because it s owned by a chinese company by dance in china. tiktok is banned, in
seemed to be very absent from today s hearing. look there is a lot of concern about teens and kids and look social media in general, do you believe that there s anything unique about tiktok that makes this app more dangerous? well okay, so this problem that they talked about and they went into harm to children in teens and sort of bali, dysmorphia and all those things that you can pick up any social media virtually any social media that is addictive in some way that keeps you scrolling has that possibility. we certainly seem to with instagram we ve seen, you know, sort of people s thought processes shifted based on the information that they see in the thought bubble on facebook. so the difference with tiktok is i think they have one of the most masterfully built algorithms i have ever seen. and if you choose your people, and if you choose what you want, you re going to see a lot of it, and unfortunately, what that is meant. is that if you re in a