Listening to #TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, before US Congress is as entertaining as listening to Zuckerberg was…
Sometimes pretty aggressive questions … sometimes evading answers.
“You remind me a lot of Mark Zuckerberg. When he came here, I said to my staff, ‘He reminds me of Fred Astaire—good dancer with words.’ And you dare doing the same today. A lot of your answers are a bit nebulous; they’re not yes or no.”
But still, he is there and is trying…
—says not accepting political ads, contrary to others;
—says they are not selling data (of course, they keep it to themselves);
—say they have controls in place to protect younger users (easily circumvented by cheating on age…);
—evading a lot of questions related to addiction, misinformation, harmful content and such…
#socialmedia #dataprivacy