Despite efforts to ban the social media giant in the U.S., TikTok reported 150 million active monthly users.

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TikTok Sees Massive Growth Amid Ban Efforts

Alright. So elsewhere in the business world, I mean, there's a lot going on right now. You gotta tell us about tiktok. I mean, we've been seeing this back and forth with the government trying to shut it down, but they're still experiencing massive growth right now. This is good news for the king of all right, Shannon, the Chinese social media app. Yes. Hitting them up in 150 million U S monthly users up from 100 million in 2020. And this growth coming before key testimony from the company's CEO before Congress on Thursday about the safety of the platform. So take a listen to remarks from the CEO. Now this comes at a pivotal moment for us. Some politicians have started talking about banning Tiktok. Now this could take Tiktok away from all 100 50 million of you. Well, bipartisan support rising though to scale back tiktok's powers here in the US. And just Friday, six additional senators backing bipartisan legislation to give the president expanded authority to ban the app on concerns of national security law makers are going to question tiktok ceo Thursday on how the app may potentially harm users including whether Americans data will fall into the hands of the Chinese government. Tiktok. Shannon has spent more than 100 excuse me, $1.5 billion on data security efforts rejects spying allegations. And of course, we'll hear from both lawmakers and tiktok on Thursday and continue to cover this story as it unfolds throughout the afternoon. So it seems like they're trying to do the right thing. They're trying to show a little bit more transparency and 100 and 50 million folks want that. They want to keep their little app. So I'm speaking for them. Right. Right. Right. And you got to control the time that you actually spend on that because if you spend too much time, they've been put in privacy settings for the kids. So the kids, after being on an hour, they say, okay, you got to take some time or get to put in a cold. So I think they're trying, we'll see what happens. One of the stories we're gonna have to follow. All right. Thank you so much.