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  • TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress.
  • Lawmakers have privacy concerns over the app's Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
  • But experts say a TikTok ban in the US is still unlikely.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress.

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You can see who views your TikTok profile, but others can see you too.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in Washington, DC on Tuesday February 14, 2023.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew.
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It's finally Friday, friend-o. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I've made it through another week of procrastination (AKA talking too much).

I spend a lot of my day thinking about writing. Then I talk for hours with colleagues about anything and everything. But once my stress hits a breaking point, I might finally hunker down with noise-canceling headphones to write.

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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.