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Stu Woo

@stuwoo
14 posts
2024-03-13
Two weeks ago, TikTok's U.S. executives flew to Singapore and told their bosses good news: TikTok wasn't in danger of an American ban. Days later, they learned they had miscalculated. @georgia_wells @raffaelehuang and I on how TikTok got blindslinded: https://www.wsj.com/...
2024-03-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

As TikTok faces a divestment bill in the US, a look at how lawmakers and the Biden administration quietly planned the legislation and caught TikTok by surprise

Executives of the video-messaging app thought they had fended off attacks.  Behind the scenes, lawmakers and Biden officials were working to force its ban or sale.

2023-04-13
Montana's attorney general says passing the TikTok ban will be tough and may ultimately result in a U.S. Supreme Court battle. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-13 View on X
New York Times

The fight for a Montana bill to ban TikTok, which passed in the Senate and will likely pass in the House, previews the legally perilous road for a federal push

A state rep asked if “this generation” was, through TikTok, choosing the CCP “as their new god” — AT&T talked its way out of having to block the app — TikTok quietly used campaign-...

2023-03-23
Who is Shou Chew? The 40-year-old TikTok CEO walked me through his fast-rising career and game plan for Congress. He was less forthright about whether he killed a quail barehanded during Singaporean army survival training. https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-03-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, a Singaporean army reservist and an ex-Goldman Sachs banker, as he defends TikTok before a skeptical Congress

Singapore army reservist and ex-Goldman banker says misconceptions about Chinese-owned app need to be clarified  —  How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company

Who is Shou Chew? The 40-year-old TikTok CEO walked me through his fast-rising career and game plan for Congress. He was less forthright about whether he killed a quail barehanded during Singaporean army survival training. https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-03-23 View on X
Washington Post

A live blog of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony before Congress, as he attempts to address national security concerns over ByteDance's ownership of the app

Updated just now  —  TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is testifying before Congress for the first time, in an attempt to address lawmakers' worries …

2023-03-16
I met TikTok's CEO in Washington to discuss his plan to save his app as it faces a possible U.S. ban. His message to politicians: Forcing a sale of TikTok won't protect Americans from potential Chinese spying or interference, but his proposal will. https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-03-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the Biden administration and CFIUS are demanding that TikTok's Chinese owners sell their stakes in the company or face a possible US ban of the app

TikTok says forced sale won't resolve national security issues; its CEO set to appear before Congress next week

I met TikTok's CEO in Washington to discuss his plan to save his app as it faces a possible U.S. ban. His message to politicians: Forcing a sale of TikTok won't protect Americans from potential Chinese spying or interference, but his proposal will. https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-03-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says divesting from ByteDance won't fix US concerns, rules out an IPO, and claims the app is unprofitable due to data security spending

WSJ Interview TikTok CEO Rules Out Near-Term IPO for the Popular Video App TikTok CEO Says App Is Unprofitable as It Spends on Data Security

2023-02-14
A reminder that it's not only up to TikTok and the U.S. government to reach a deal on TikTok's American operations. The Chinese government has a say too. From @lizalinwsj @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-02-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail tensions during the US-TikTok negotiations over the Chinese government's role and influence, including a possible veto over a future deal

ByteDance is under pressure from the U.S. to silo—or divest—TikTok's American operations, but the company also has to navigate Beijing's druthers

2023-02-03
We visited the TikTok Transparency Center, part of its campaign to build trust so the app keeps operating in the U.S. It reminded us of Huawei's Transparency Center and similar strategy — which didn't pan out in chunks of Europe. w/@georgia_wells https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-02-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

TikTok's playbook to win DC's trust, like touring its Transparency and Accountability Center in California, echoes Huawei's unsuccessful US and Europe strategy

and Some Want to Ban It Entirely Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times : Democrat Senator Michael Bennet calls on Apple and Google to ban TikTok from their app stores Makena Kelly / Th...

2021-10-15
Huge news from China: LinkedIn says it is closing its professional-networking site in China. This comes after the Microsoft-owned service blocked the profiles of journalists and human-rights activists in China for prohibited content. w/@lizalinwsj https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-10-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Microsoft is shuttering the Chinese version of LinkedIn and replacing it with a job board; sources say China told LinkedIn in March to better regulate content

LinkedIn cites challenging operating environment, as retreat marks the biggest departure from China by a major tech company in years Source: Official LinkedIn Blog .

Here's the LinkedIn statement. It acknowldeges the company made compromises to operate in China, and indicates that it concluded that it's no longer worth it. https://blog.linkedin.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Microsoft is shuttering the Chinese version of LinkedIn and replacing it with a job board; sources say China told LinkedIn in March to better regulate content

LinkedIn cites challenging operating environment, as retreat marks the biggest departure from China by a major tech company in years Source: Official LinkedIn Blog .

2021-06-15
The U.S. campaign against Huawei has shifted from sticks to carrots. It started out threatening to withhold intelligence from Huawei-using allies. Now it's offering loans and training. Central and Eastern Europe is a focus. w/@drewhinshaw https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-06-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

US government is ratcheting up pressure on China's overseas 5G ambitions, offering financial incentives and more to countries willing to shun Huawei and ZTE

2020-10-03
How mainstream is QAnon now? Mainstream enough that Q supporters are publicly backing the movement on their LinkedIn profiles. LinkedIn is paying attention, trying to proactively remove posts and block accounts. Collaboration w/@samueloakford https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-10-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

As QAnon presence on LinkedIn grows, the network is taking steps to limit the spread but does not sanction members for displaying support on their profiles

as a threat to our institutions and societies. https://www.wsj.com/... via @apalmerdc @JakeSherman https://twitter.com/... Davey Alba / @daveyalba : oh wow. o...k https://www.wsj.c...

2018-01-29
Kudos to @axios ! For background, our story from earlier this month about the U.S. government pressuring AT&T to not use cell-tower equipment and sell smartphones from China's Huawei, even though their stuff is often cheaper and better, over spy fears. https://www.wsj.com/...
2018-01-29 View on X
Axios

Memo by a NSC official that's circulating in the Trump administration proposes government pay for and build a nationwide 5G network in 3 years to fend off China

Trump national security officials are considering an unprecedented federal takeover of a portion of the nation's mobile network …

This would be gigantic and really explains how gravely the U.S. fears the rise of Huawei (and ZTE to a lesser extent). AT&T and Verizon are not going to be happy about this. https://twitter.com/...
2018-01-29 View on X
Axios

Memo by a NSC official that's circulating in the Trump administration proposes government pay for and build a nationwide 5G network in 3 years to fend off China

Trump national security officials are considering an unprecedented federal takeover of a portion of the nation's mobile network …