{"id":987477,"date":"2026-01-24T08:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987477"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:02:26","slug":"senator-says-congress-must-investigate-tiktok-deal-faults-lack-of-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/senator-says-congress-must-investigate-tiktok-deal-faults-lack-of-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator says Congress must investigate TikTok deal, faults lack of details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Senator Ed Markey said on Friday Congress should investigate a \u2060deal by TikTok&#8217;s Chinese owner ByteDance to establish a majority American-owned joint venture that would secure US data in a bid to avoid a US ban on the social media app. <\/p>\n<p>Markey said the deal, \u200cfinalised on \u200cThursday, left many key questions unanswered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Senator Ed Markey said on Friday Congress should investigate a \u2060deal by TikTok&#8217;s Chinese owner ByteDance to establish a majority American-owned joint venture that would secure US data in a bid to avoid a US ban on the social media app. Markey said the deal, \u200cfinalised on \u200cThursday, left many key questions unanswered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}