In an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, the CEO of TikTok said that he is responsible for all the strategic decisions at the company.
Even though many of his answers sounded straight from the 2010s, the 40-year-old Chew was funny and relaxed for most of the interview. TikTok allows people to express themselves and build communities. The booktok community with over 70 billion views is a force in the publishing industry. He refused to answer a question about the impact of TikTok on women. That is straight from the early 2010s version of the popular photo sharing website.
At the same time, Chew was prepared to answer questions about Chinese interference in TikTok, whose ownership by China-based Byte Dance has caused calls for the app to be banned on both sides of the aisle. He told Sorkin that they have been working with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to find a solution to the problem.
His responses were straight from the 2010s, when social-networking is good for the world.
The solution is "Project Texas," in which TikTok will move its data from Virginia and Singapore to a new cloud infrastructure in the US run by Oracle, where only a team made of US residents will have access. It is difficult to build the system, but we are doing it to address the concerns.
He said that they are ahead of the curve. This is the most organized data that a company has.
He said that if a foreign government asked for user data, the company would not give it.
The TikTok algorithm in the United States is different from the one in China due to the different user groups interacting differently, according to Chew. He said that it was too early to tell what would happen with Musk's investment in the social networking site. He said that platform safety is important, but that platforms need to invest in trust and safety, in stark contrast to what happened with the teams atTwitter.
"We have a responsibility to invest more to make sure that any trends and content not suitable for young people is moderated off the platform."
TikTok is the only platform at its scale that doesn't accept political ads, and that's because they don't fill the company's mission of inspiring creativity and creating joy He told the audience that political ads don't do this.
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