Mahaz News
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TikTok now has 150 million month-to-month lively customers within the United States, CEO Shou Chew confirmed on Tuesday, in a transparent try to focus on the platform’s huge and rising attain within the nation amid renewed requires a ban.
“That’s almost half the US coming to TikTok to connect, to create, to share, to learn, or just to have some fun,” Chew stated in a TikTok video on Tuesday. The determine additionally consists of about 5 million companies that use TikTok to achieve prospects, Chew stated.
The new disclosure comes simply days earlier than Chew is scheduled to look earlier than a Congressional committee to defend the destiny of the app within the United States. A rising variety of lawmakers within the United States and overseas have raised nationwide safety issues concerning the short-form video app due to TikTok’s ties to China via its dad or mum firm, ByteDance.
TikTok acknowledged to Mahaz News final week week that federal officers are demanding the app’s Chinese homeowners promote their stake within the social media platform, or danger going through a US ban of the app. In 2020, when the Trump administration made an analogous risk, TikTok stated it had 100 million US customers.
“Now, this comes at a pivotal moment for us,” Chew stated within the video Tuesday. “Some politicians have started talking about banning TikTok, now this could take TikTok away from all 150 million of you.”
“I’ll be testifying before Congress later this week to share all that we’re doing to protect Americans using the app and deliver on our mission to inspire creativity and to bring joy,” Chew added.
The Singaporean chief government ended his transient video by interesting to customers on the app to go away feedback on the clip telling lawmakers instantly, “What you want your elected representatives to know about what you love about TikTok.”
Chew is scheduled to look earlier than the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday morning to “testify on TikTok’s consumer privacy and data security practices, the platforms’ impact on kids, and its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party,” in response to an announcement final week from the committee.
Source web site: www.cnn.com
