The head of TikTok Zhou Shouzi himself on the eve of the hearings in the US Congress said that the social network is not controlled by the Chinese government, and all the data of Americans is stored in the United States under the control of the American company.
Kirby said That Shouzi's speech did not change the US attitude that this application "in one way or another poses a challenge to national security."
According to the US official, the authorities are worried about the problem of transferring information about users to Beijing, writes RIA Novosti.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said earlier that the country's administration considers TikTok a threat to US national security, which must be ended.
According to CNN, more than half of the U.S. states have banned officials from using TikTok.