- TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew was grilled by American lawmakers for five hours about the app's potential threats to America's national security.
- Lawmakers are concerned about the data that the Chinese-owned company may be collecting and the potential for the app to be used to spread propaganda on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
- TikTok's parent company ByteDance is facing pressure to sell the app to another firm or risk being banned in the US.
- TikTok has proposed Project Texas, a plan to store all American data within the US by the end of this year on servers operated by American firm Oracle.
- Several US states have already banned TikTok on government devices or networks, and there is a bill being considered that would grant the Commerce Department the power to prohibit communications or technology transactions with foreign adversaries.
America may be a step closer to banning TikTok
What the grilling in Congress means for the future of the app | United States
