TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat executives testify at Senate hearing on kids’ social media safety | FULL

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Tik Tok, Snapchat, YouTube executives testified to U.S. Senate on Tuesday, as the Senate Commerce Consumer Protection Subcommittee held a hearing on protecting children online.

Witnesses included Jennifer Stout, vice president of global public policy at Snap Inc., Michael Beckerman, head of public policy for the Americas at TikTok, and Leslie Miller, vice president of public affairs at YouTube.

In setting a hearing focused on TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube and Snapchat, the Senate Commerce Committee said the popular apps have “been misused to harm kids and promote destructive acts, such as vandalism in schools, deadly viral challenges, bullying, eating disorders, manipulative influencer marketing, and grooming.”

The hearing is the latest part of a lengthy inquiry into what lawmakers from both parties see as Big Tech’s increasingly negative influence on competition, society and children.

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In This Story: TikTok

TikTok, known in China as Douyin, is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It is used to create short music, lip-sync, dance, comedy and talent videos of 3 to 15 seconds, and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds.

ByteDance first launched Douyin for the Chinese market in September 2016. Later, TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it only became available worldwide, including the United States, after merging with another Chinese social media service Musical.ly on 2 August 2018.

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