House Republicans: TikTok May Have Lied During Briefing
TikTok may have provided misleading or false information during a bipartisan meeting with House staff in September, House Commerce Committee ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and House Oversight Committee ranking member James Comer, R-Ky., wrote the company in a…
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letter Tuesday. They cited reports (see 2210210072) that TikTok is “actively embedding trackers across the internet to gather Americans’ search data and using the app to track specific location data of designated targets.” The company provided “potentially false or misleading information with bipartisan Committee staff” during a Sep. 7 briefing, they wrote: That includes claims that TikTok doesn’t track users across the internet while they’re not using the app and that China-based employees don’t have access to specific location data for U.S. users. It’s unclear if the company’s reported plans included “tracking U.S. government officials, journalists, or other public figures,” they wrote. “If true, these reports are deeply concerning and provide significant evidence that TikTok may have made misleading statements during its briefing with bipartisan Committee staff.”