Congress may be going after the wrong social network | CNN Business

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When lawmakers grilled TikTok CEO Shou Chew during a lengthy hearing last March, Rep. Darren Soto argued what has now become the crux of a bill that overwhelmingly passed in the House this week.

“TikTok needs to be an American company with American values,” Soto, a Democrat from Florida, told the TikTok chief executive.

Chew, meanwhile, clapped back, “American social companies don’t have a good track record with data privacy and user security. I mean, look at Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.”

Roughly one year later, House lawmakers on Wednesday overwhelmingly

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