Congress grills TikTok CEO

The CEO of TikTok faced a grilling on Thursday from a US congressional committee in a rare public appearance where he made his own case for why the hugely popular video-sharing app shouldn’t be banned.

Shou Zi Chew’s testimony came at a crucial time for the company, which has acquired 150 million American users but is under increasing pressure from US officials.

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have been swept up in a wider geopolitical battle between Beijing and Washington over trade and technology.