Congressional lawmakers have grown increasingly concerned about TikTok’s handling of controversial political content and its approach to privacy. CFIUS has opened a probe of TikTok based on ByteDance’s 2017 purchase of the U.S. company Musical.ly, which became TikTok. Two other lawmakers – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) – have asked U.S. intelligence officials to begin another review of TikTok to determine whether the app poses a national security concern. TikTok has become one of the fastest growing social media platforms in the world, downloaded more than 1.3 billion times around the world, 120 million of those in the United States.

Source: Washington Post November 03, 2019 23:48 UTC