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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew and the TikTok logo in front of US flag
Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, testified in front of Congress on Thursday.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew and the TikTok logo in front of US flag
TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in front of Congress Thursday, but it did little to assuage lawmakers concerns about the social media app.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in Washington, DC on Tuesday February 14, 2023.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in Washington, DC on Tuesday February 14, 2023.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in Washington, DC on Tuesday February 14, 2023.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said the average TikTok user is "an adult well past college age."
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TikTok videos are helping car dealers find new customers.
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It's the middle of the week, 10 Things in Techies. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and for the first decade or so that I worked, I was always paid in cash. I didn't put much of it into a bank, because I didn't really understand how it worked.

So I hid it in different places, keeping a mental tally of my cash stash.

I'd be pretty upset if I mistaked one of my decoy reserves for a pot of proverbial gold. But that's almost exactly what happened to JPMorgan Chase.

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TikTok reports that it's up to 150 million monthly active users in the US. That means effort to ban the app could meet stiff resistance.
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Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York holds up a phone at the Capitol in May 2022.
Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York holds up a phone at the Capitol in May 2022.
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$100K apparently isn't that much, pals. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I'm definitely feeling a financial strain in San Diego.

A new study found that if you make $100,000 in NYC, it only "feels like" $36,000. Meanwhile, the same study found that San Diegans need to make even more than New Yorkers to live comfortably. Imagine moving to New York to save some money. Wild.

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Banning TikTok has become a bipartisan issue, but it's not easy.