The United States Congress has experienced a day of maximum expectation for the declaration of the CEO of Tik Tok app, Shou Zi Chew. The CEO of the social network has championed data security that has the application and has marked differences with the Chinese matrix.

In the United States, for weeks public workers have been prohibited from downloading this application. Also the British parliament, Canada or the European Commission have prohibited it in official devices. In India they have gone a step further and it is totally prohibited since 2020.

What is happening now is that the US Congress Assess whether to ban Tik Tok nationwide and with his appearance, the Tik Tok man se plays the 150 million users of the ‘app’ what is in the country.

“I come to clarify the many misconceptions about us,” he said at the beginning of his speech. One of these ideas that he calls “wrong” is the one that leads big leaders to worry that the parent of Tik Tok, ByteDance, provide data to the regime of Beijing and feed disinformation campaigns through the ‘feed’ of recommendations. There is also concern about the dangerous influence of viral challenges.

The Tik Tok CEO has defended himself by distancing himself from Beijing. They are private company, they insist, and they have never asked for user data. “We are going to surround ourselves with firewalls and protect US data from foreign access,” said Shou Zi Chew.

Too a promised transparency and “prioritize safety, especially for adolescents” and has warned US congressmen that imposing a veto on that platform in the country would harm the economy and freedom of expression.

Until a decision is made, there is still a succulent economic and influence business at stake, for TikTok itself and for millions of SMEs and influencers.

For the moment, the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, has been one of the first to speak. He assures that the Chinese social network poses a “threat” to the national security of his country that “must end one way or another.”

“We, the Administration, and others are facing the challenge that (TikTok) poses and we are taking steps to address it,” he said.