Boston.com Article RatingTikTok is D.C.'s new boogeyman. Can Silicon Valley's tactics save it?
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| "The company also hired former Reps. Bart Gordon (D-Te.), now at the law firm K&L Gates, and Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), now at the law firm Dentons, to lobby on its behalf." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The company also hired former Reps. Bart Gordon (D-Te.), now at the law firm K&L Gates, and Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), now at the law firm Dentons, to lobby on its behalf." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "TikTok influencers are plaing multiple events on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, including an evening news conference with Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.)" | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), who met with Chew ahead of the hearing, called it refreshing to have a frank, productive conversation face-to-face with a tech CEO who was willing to admit his company has problems and extend more than platitudes about how to fix them.When you speak out about a tech giant, you immediately get contacted by lobbyists, attacked by Big Tech-funded dark money groups, or even see an AstroTurf campaign in your district, she told The Post." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Joseph Crowley, the former chair of the House Democratic Caucus, has sat in on several private meetings with lawmakers, according to two congressional aides, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private discussions, as have other former members." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "But TikTok, owned by Beijing-headquartered ByteDance, faces steep odds in wiing over Washington lawmakers, who have been skeptical of the company's promise to protect Americans' data, including a $1.5 billion investment in data security dubbed Project Texas developed amid negotiations with Biden administration officials." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "But as TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faces an impending congressional grilling and the company encounters a perilous suite of problems - capped by pressure from the Biden administration for its Chinese owners to divest their stakes - it is mounting a campaign to wrest itself from its role as Washington's boogeyman." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Adam Kovacevich, the head of Chamber of Progress, backed the Biden administration's plan to force TikTok's Chinese owners to sell, writing in an op-ed the app presented serious risk of foreign interference." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
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