Explainer: What now for TikTok in the US after CEO Chew Shou Zi's five-hour grilling by US Congress?

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Explainer: What now for TikTok in the US after CEO Chew Shou Zi's five-hour grilling by US Congress?

SINGAPORE, March 25 — With a five-hour grilling of TikTok chief executive officer Chew Shou Zi by the United States Congress now over, questions arise about what lies ahead for the social media giant, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. US legislators are now mulling a nationwide ban on the platform, after US officials barred the app on government-owned devices and the Senate introduced a bill, which appears to have bipartisan backing. …