US lawmakers’ minds were already made up about TikTok


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When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew showed up on Capitol Hill this week to testify at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, committee chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington, immediately set the tone for the ordeal. After explicitly calling for civility and decorum in the chamber, McMorris Rodgers came in scorching hot, condemning her guest. Advertisement “Mr. Chew, you are here because the American people need the truth about the threat TikTok poses to our national and personal security,” she said, asserting that TikTok is an explicit surveillance apparatus for the Chinese government and that it will...