Representative Mike Gallagher and 12 other Republican lawmakers said in a letter to TikTok CEO Show Zi Chew that they want “additional information about TikTok’s content moderation policies and practices.”
The Michigan-based Acton Institute said last week its TikTok account was suspended for posting content from the film about Lai. The lawmakers said the account was restored after media reports about the suspension. TikTok did not immediately comment.
TikTok has been under intense scrutiny from governments across the globe. While some are calling for an outright ban, others have ordered the app to be removed from government phones.
On Wednesday, Austria said it will join the growing list of countries banning TikTok from government employees’ work phones.
Various Western countries including Britain, the United States and several other European Union member states have already barred TikTok over security concerns. The EU’s two biggest policymaking institutions also banned the app in March.
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“It will be banned from work mobile phones. On private phones outside the state network it will of course be possible (to use the app),” interior minister Gerhard Karner told reporters before a weekly cabinet meeting when asked if politicians in government would be able to keep using the app.In March, US lawmakers questioned TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew during a Congressional hearing in what was a rare public appearance from the CEO.
The lawmakers were unconvinced with most of what Chew said as they questioned him on data security and user safety while he made a case for why the hugely popular video-sharing app shouldn’t be banned.
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