
TikTok backed out of a congressional committee’s « public roundtable » set for this month over concerns it would be asked about child safety practices, the chair of the committee said.
After negotiating « in good faith » to bring TikTok’s chief security officer before the House Select Committee on China to answer questions about Chinese government access to Americans’ data and the TikTok algorithm, Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI) said in a statement Thursday that the company reversed course. « Now, TikTok is refusing to appear citing its own desire to avoid broader scrutiny of its child safety practices, » Moolenaar wrote. TikTok did not immediately …