TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will tell U.S. lawmakers Thursday that the company has never, and would never, share data from U.S. users with China or the Chinese Communist Party.

TikTok's critics fear that its US user data could be passed on to China's government by the app and prompted growing calls to ban the app by US lawmakers.

TikTok’s CEO plans to tell Congress that the video-sharing app is committed to user safety, data protection and security, and keeping the platform free from Chinese government influence

TikTok has never been more popular or more controversial. The short-form video platform does not just rule online culture. It shapes it, from the Corn Kid remix to Louis Theroux’s “Jiggle Jiggle.

TikTok's CEO will promise Congress that the company will maintain a firewall between U.S. user data and the Chinese Communist Party, an effort to stave off a ban on the app by increasingly skeptical legislators.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will tell lawmakers Thursday that banning the app in the U.S. would hurt American businesses and the country's economy, according to newly released remarks prepared for his testimony before Congress.