On Thursday, March 23, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing entitled, “TikTok: How Congress Can Safeguard American Data Privacy and Protect Children from Online Harms.” During the hearing, Members and witness discussed: security and transparency, including ByteDance-TikTok divestment and Chinese Communist Party data access, third-party audits, cloud infrastructure, and data collection practices; content moderation, including violent and dangerous content, discrimination, misinformation, censorship and government interference, and Section 230; and children’s health and safety, including targeted advertisements, screentime, and age verification.
