{"id":987487,"date":"2026-01-24T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987487"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:04:57","slug":"us-lawmakers-say-tiktok-joint-venture-deal-needs-scrutiny-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/us-lawmakers-say-tiktok-joint-venture-deal-needs-scrutiny-from-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers say TikTok joint venture deal needs scrutiny from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some U.S. lawmakers on Friday said \u200da deal by TikTok&#8217;s Chinese owner \u200bByteDance to establish a majority American-owned joint venture to avoid a U.S. ban on \u2060the social media app needs scrutiny from Congress. <\/p>\n<p>Representative Jack Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House select committee on China, said the committee would conduct oversight of the deal finalised Thursday, adding China &#8220;cannot be allowed to weaponise an app \u200cto divide and \u200cweaken our country. Does this deal ensure China does not have influence over the algorithm? Can the parties involved assure Americans their data is \u200csecure? Those are questions that need to be answered.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some U.S. lawmakers on Friday said \u200da deal by TikTok&#8217;s Chinese owner \u200bByteDance to establish a majority American-owned joint venture to avoid a U.S. ban on \u2060the social media app needs scrutiny from Congress. Representative Jack Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House select committee on China, said the committee would conduct oversight of the deal finalised Thursday, adding China &#8220;cannot be allowed to weaponise an app \u200cto divide and \u200cweaken our country. Does this deal ensure China does not have influence over the algorithm? Can the parties involved assure Americans their data is \u200csecure? Those are questions that need [&hellip;]<\/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-987487","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\/987487","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=987487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}