US lawmakers on Thursday battered TikTok's CEO about potential Chinese influence over the platform and said its short videos were damaging children's mental health, reflecting bipartisan concerns about the app's power over Americans.
路透社:TikTok聽證會:CEO周受資被美國議員盤問(grilled)
*Grill:根據(jù)劍橋詞典的解釋,除了常用的“燒烤”等含義,grill在美式英語中還指“在長時間內(nèi)問某人很多問題(to ask someone a lot of questions for a long time)”。根據(jù)美媒的報道,這場聽證會時間超過五個小時,用grill來表達可以說相當(dāng)準確了。
It was a rare chance for the public to hear from the Chew, who offers very few interviews. Yet his company’s app is among the most popular in America, with more than 150 million active users.
Chew spent most of the hearing attempting to push back assertions that TikTok, or its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are tools of the Chinese government.
Washington Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, opened Thursday’s hearing by telling Chew: “Your platform should be banned.”
Much of Chew’s attempts to stress that his company is not an arm of the Chinese government appeared to fall on deaf ears. Numerous members of Congress interrupted the chief executive’s testimony to say they simply don’t believe him.
In an exchange with California Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo, Chew talked up TikTok’s ongoing efforts to protect US user data and said he has “seen no evidence that the Chinese government has access to that data; they have never asked us, we have not provided it.”
Moderation of content continues to be a key point. Rep. Brett Guthrie, Republican of Kentucky, hammered away at the question of why videos promoting drug use appear on TikTok in America, but not on the app of its sister company in China. Chew responded that TikTok deals with “the reality of the country we are operating in.” He added there was no illegal drug content on TikTok in Singapore because of that company’s “very strict drug laws.”
US Rep. Buddy Carter asked Chew whether the app tracks pupil dilation as a form of facial recognition to drive algorithms. Chew responded by saying the app does not use body, face or voice data to identify users, and the only face data the app collects is for “filters to have sunglasses on your face.”
In a statement after the hearing, TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter told Axios: "Shou came prepared to answer questions from Congress, but, unfortunately, the day was dominated by political grandstanding that failed to acknowledge the real solutions already underway."
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