• During the hearing, Chew neglected to answer whether individuals associated with ByteDance, the social media platform’s Chinese parent company, helped him prepare for the hearing.
• Lawmakers further pressed Chew asking if the app has spied on Americans at the request of Bejing, which the CEO denied.
• “It’s very concerning that the CEO of TikTok can’t be honest and admit what we already know to be true—China has access to TikTok user data,” McCarthy wrote in a tweet.

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