Evening Edition: TikTok CEO To Testify Before Congress This Week

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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TikTok CEO Shou Zi CHew is set to testify before Congress this week and is expected to try to calm national security concerns that the popular app gathers data from users for nefarious purposes. TikTok, owned by ByteDance, has a sister app CapCut which is also now facing scrutiny over the handling of user data. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Madison Alworth, FOX Business Network Correspondent, about what we expect from the testimony of TikTok's CEO and how security concerns go beyond one app. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Janice Dean.
0:01.0	I'm Red Bear.
0:02.0	I'm Martha McCallum, and this is The Fox News rundown.
0:05.6	Tuesday, March 21st, 2023.
0:12.1	I'm John Sawciae.
0:13.9	TikTok's been trending a lot, and not only on app stores, but on Capitol Hill these days,
0:18.3	especially so this week.
0:20.0	TikTok CEO will put down the phone for a second and testify for Congress about what exactly
0:24.7	is going on with their algorithm and user data.
0:27.5	You can put on our most vulnerable generation, the future of our country, and you realize
0:32.2	that the algorithm and the hold that this app has on our youth is coming from a foreign
0:37.1	country and foreign company.
0:39.0	I think that would scare most people.
0:40.8	This is The Fox News rundown, evening edition.
0:48.3	From The Fox News Podcasts Network, I'm Ben Dominic, Fox News contributor and editor
0:53.1	of TheTransom.com Daily Newsletter, and I'm inviting you to join a conversation every
0:57.6	week.
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1:03.5	If you thought TikTok was the only popular app on the marketplace owned by Chinese company
1:07.8	by Dance, think again.
1:09.8	Let me tell you about CapCut, same company, major popularity, and similar concerns about
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