Lawmakers lambasted TikTok’s chief executive about the platform’s ties to China in a roughly five-hour hearing, punctuating how the viral video app has become a central battleground as the United States and China tussle for political, technological and economic primacy. Shou Chew, the chief executive of TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance, was barraged with questions about the app’s relationship to its parent company and China’s potential influence over the platform. Republican and Democratic lawmakers repeatedly asked Mr. Chew if TikTok was spying on Americans on behalf of the Chinese government, cut him off midsentence and angrily demanded “yes” or “no” answers from him.
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