All of these platforms have 'force fed children dangerous and harmful content with predatory algorithms', it said.
The Tech Oversight Project, a nonprofit, says Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. employ the same harmful business practices as TikTok and are increasingly copying some of the video-sharing app’s design features.
While the memo is sharply critical of TikTok, it echoes some of that company’s arguments that lawmakers should focus on general data practices, rather than the Chinese ownership of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance Ltd. This argument is likely to feature prominently in the testimony of TikTok CEO Shou Chew when he appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday.
The White House has urged Congress to focus on passing one bipartisan Senate bill that would give the administration the authority to evaluate and mitigate the national security risk of any adversary-owned technology such as TikTok. Senator Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, urged Congress this month to"take this TikTok issue and broaden it to look at what US companies are doing.” Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said Congress should focus on a"comprehensive policy that starts closing the gaps” in privacy protections online.
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