Chinese-owned TikTok is enlisting former U.S. lawmakers amid a preemptive bid to sidestep the Silicon Valley backlash in Washington that's paralyzing many larger U.S. tech giants
Chinese-owned social media firm TikTok is enlisting former U.S. lawmakers amid a preemptive bid to sidestep the Silicon Valley backlash in Washington that's paralyzing so many larger U.S. tech giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter.
Two-year-old TikTok, a rapidly burgeoning social network that lets users share short videos, on Tuesday announced that former Reps. Jeff Denham and Bart Gordon will be part of a team from law firm K&L Gates advising the company on developing a comprehensive approach to vetting objectionable videos and otherwise moderating the content its users post.
The moves come as U.S. social media firms face ever-rising Washington headwinds, including over failures to curb hate speech and foreign and domestic political trolling. President Donald Trump and other Republicans have also accused companies like Facebook and Twitter of building an anti-conservative bias into their content moderation decisions, a claim for which there's no clear evidence.
The upstart social network, which became the most downloaded app in the U.S. in 2018, argues that it stands apart from those more established forebears. “I joined TikTok at the start of this year because I found the platform's fun and entertaining environment to be a breath of fresh air in an online world that has increasingly migrated toward argument and divisiveness,” Pappas wrote in the blog post. “TikTok is different. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
The broad Washington backlash against Silicon Valley isn't the only potential political pitfall facing TikTok. It's owned by Beijing-based tech company ByteDance and is becoming wildly popular just as U.S. policymakers fret about the rise of Chinese technology and telecom firms. The Trump administration and a large, bipartisan bloc of lawmakers say such companies pose a national security risk given Beijing's tight control over, and entanglement with, companies that operate in China.
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