TikTok says half of Americans use site as ban threat looms

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Chew will give testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday where he is set to face a barrage of questions over allegations by both Republicans and Democrats that the app is beholden to the Communist Party in Beijing.

"Today, I'm super excited to announce that more than 150 million Americans are on TikTok. That's almost half of the US coming to TikTok to connect, to create, to share, to learn or just to have some fun," Chew said in a TikTok post. Chew also asked the app's devoted users to"let me know in the comments what you want your elected representatives to know about what you love about TikTok."

The Singaporean CEO said he would share with Congress"all that we're doing to protect Americans using the app," in a reference to a proposal called Project Texas that would guarantee a special handling for the data of US users.

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