Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), along with 12 Republican and 11 Democrat members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, requested the FBI to update Congress on its investigation into TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance.
The bipartisan committee is requesting information into the allegation that ByteDance is providing sensitive information on American TikTok users to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Gallagher alleges that there is direct evidence that contradicts TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony before congress earlier this year where he stated that he had no evidence of the CCP monitoring his company’s American user data.
Gallagher cited public data analysis alleging that ByteDance permits antisemitic bias on TikTok while suppressing content critical of the CCP, and highlights comments made by FBI director Chris Wray, where he said during a Senate hearing, “This is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the Chinese government — and it, to me, it screams out with national security concerns.”
