Actually that's an often-used tactic in that situation. Plenty of trick questions used to corner you or make you reveal extra info accidentally.
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Tik Tok CEO Chew Shou Zi to be President of Singapore
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Actually that's an often-used tactic in that situation. Plenty of trick questions used to corner you or make you reveal extra info accidentally.
Chew also knows how to mobilise the grassroots.
What an ideal PAP political and presidential candidate!
Mr Kenny Jarry and Ms Janette Ok were among the TikTok stars who took part in an all-expenses paid trip to speak on behalf of the platform. PHOTOS: SCREENGRABS FROM PATRIOTICKENNY/TIKTOK, INMYSEAMS/TIKTOK
Mar 24, 2023
WASHINGTON – In a hotel room on Wednesday morning, Janette Ok, a fashion and lifestyle TikTok creator from Los Angeles, was getting ready for a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill. She ripped off the tag hanging from a sleeve of her blazer and donned a pair of hot pink gloves, which matched her heels.
Might she consider more ergonomic footwear for the long day ahead?
“Anything for the fashion,” she said.
Ms Ok, 26, was one of more than 30 TikTok stars who took part in an all-expenses paid trip to speak on behalf of the platform amid rising TikTok tensions as the Biden administration has pushed TikTok’s Chinese ownership to sell the video app or face a possible ban in the United States. TikTok’s Singapore-based CEO, Mr Shou Chew, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday.
ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, flew the creators and their plus-ones first class to Washington and put them up in a high-end hotel for the week. On Tuesday, the group had dinner with Mr Chew, who appeared in a number of videos posted that night.
On Wednesday morning, remnants of room service – a pink smoothie, some picked-over lox and eggs – sat on a table in Ms Ok’s room overlooking the Jefferson Memorial. She had brought along a friend, Mr Imani Carrier, a fellow creator.
Before joining TikTok in 2019, Ms Ok had been steadily building a following on other social media platforms. On TikTok, she gained 1 million followers in six months. With that growth came opportunities. Some have been just plain fun, like meeting actor Michael B. Jordan. Others have been highly remunerative. These days, she can command as much as US$70,000 (S$92,965) for a single brand deal, she said.
“It’s like the new American dream,” she said of her experience, adding that her parents had immigrated from South Korea to Los Angeles.
Ms Ok also said she was not worried about potential national security concerns raised by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. “Security and privacy is a No 1 priority for the app,” she said. “It’s top of mind for them.” Critics of the platform say that it could be used to give the Chinese government access to the personal data of its users in the United States.
Throughout the day, a number of other creators would echo TikTok talking points on what it says it is doing to safeguard personal data, including a switch earlier this year to routing American user data through Oracle, rather than servers in China. In June, the company also said it would still keep backups of the data as it made the move.
The creators also leaned heavily on statistics that the platform recently made public, including that 150 million Americans use TikTok, according to TikTok.
Tag gone, heels on, Ms Ok headed for a bus that would take her and her fellow creators to their first stop of the day.
“The bus, this brings back memories,” said Mr Duncan Joseph, a 20-year-old creator, noting that he was last in the nation’s capital for an eighth-grade field trip.
Adding to the field trip vibes were the TikTok representatives who took on the role of de facto chaperones as “Team TikTok” shuttled from place to place, with bathroom breaks along the way.
Mr Joseph said he started making videos on the app in 2020, when he was a junior in high school. Now TikTok is his full-time job. “I’m worried about the big picture with regard to all tech companies,” he said. The idea that all social media apps, not just TikTok, are due for better oversight and regulation was another sound bite the creators offered up Wednesday.
At the first event Wednesday, which took place at a rooftop space on Constitution Avenue, the creators met with a small gathering of reporters to describe what TikTok has meant for them.
Mr Kenny Jarry, 81, said that joining the app two years ago had fundamentally changed his life. A Navy veteran from Minnesota, Mr Jarry now has over 2 million followers. Through a brand partnership, he got new teeth, he said, and his followers also helped him crowd-fund a new mobility scooter.
Ms Ebony Nunez and Ms Denise Nunez, lesbian moms who run a family TikTok account featuring their three children, said they hoped the proposed TikTok ban would not go through. “You’d be taking our family away,” Ebony said. They added that they had left prior careers to focus solely on making content for the app.
Other creators also spoke in favour of TikTok, including several teachers who talked about the importance of the platform to education, and Ms Tiffany Yu, who emphasised how it had supercharged her reach as an advocate for disabled people.
Elsewhere on the rooftop, Ms Naomi Hearts, a 25-year-old creator known for her comedy and fashion content, filmed another video. “I had to fulfill my Elle Woods fantasy,” she said, referring to the heroine of “Legally Blonde 2,” who moves to Washington to pursue a ban on animal testing in cosmetics.
From there, group members took Ubers to the Capitol. The building is regularly filled with people walking with phones glued to their hands, but the group of TikTokers, many of them laughing and filming as they strolled the corridors, offered a palpably different energy.
Ms Hearts and a few others met with staff members from the office of Representative Judy Chu of California. “We talked about how TikTok impacts the community and the U.S. in the positive way,” Ms Hearts said after the meeting. She added that she thought that Ms Chu’s staff was “perceptive,” but “didn’t give us much insight.” Still, she said, she was glad to speak her piece.
The group went to two more meetings, the first with Representative Linda Sanchez of California, the second with staff members from the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein. Afterward, Ms Hearts, only half joking, asked the TikTok representatives if her hotel had a spa and would the company possibly spring for a facial?
When asked if she would be among the TikTok creators who would attend the hearing scheduled for Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one creator said, “What hearing?” It was genuinely hard to tell if she was kidding. Only a few creators from the group ended up going to the event in person.
The last stop was a news conference at the House Triangle outside the Capitol, where a select few creators gave short speeches alongside three elected officials, including Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York, a vocal defender of the app.
Several creators said they were tired and hungry. One seemed to be napping while seated upright on a bench. Nearby, a heckler in a red cap that read “MAGA KING” repeatedly shouted, “TikTok is terrible!” He was removed from the area by Mr Jamal Brown, a member of the TikTok communications team. Mr Brown was previously President Joe Biden’s campaign national press secretary.
As the group posed for photos, Ms Hearts was nowhere to be found. A company representative strode quickly over to the Capitol steps to collect her.
She had been filming a TikTok. It would be posted within the hour. NYT
What an ideal PAP political and presidential candidate!
ByteDance flies over 30 TikTok stars first-class to Washington to lobby for platform
Mr Kenny Jarry and Ms Janette Ok were among the TikTok stars who took part in an all-expenses paid trip to speak on behalf of the platform. PHOTOS: SCREENGRABS FROM PATRIOTICKENNY/TIKTOK, INMYSEAMS/TIKTOK
Mar 24, 2023
WASHINGTON – In a hotel room on Wednesday morning, Janette Ok, a fashion and lifestyle TikTok creator from Los Angeles, was getting ready for a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill. She ripped off the tag hanging from a sleeve of her blazer and donned a pair of hot pink gloves, which matched her heels.
Might she consider more ergonomic footwear for the long day ahead?
“Anything for the fashion,” she said.
Ms Ok, 26, was one of more than 30 TikTok stars who took part in an all-expenses paid trip to speak on behalf of the platform amid rising TikTok tensions as the Biden administration has pushed TikTok’s Chinese ownership to sell the video app or face a possible ban in the United States. TikTok’s Singapore-based CEO, Mr Shou Chew, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday.
ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, flew the creators and their plus-ones first class to Washington and put them up in a high-end hotel for the week. On Tuesday, the group had dinner with Mr Chew, who appeared in a number of videos posted that night.
On Wednesday morning, remnants of room service – a pink smoothie, some picked-over lox and eggs – sat on a table in Ms Ok’s room overlooking the Jefferson Memorial. She had brought along a friend, Mr Imani Carrier, a fellow creator.
Before joining TikTok in 2019, Ms Ok had been steadily building a following on other social media platforms. On TikTok, she gained 1 million followers in six months. With that growth came opportunities. Some have been just plain fun, like meeting actor Michael B. Jordan. Others have been highly remunerative. These days, she can command as much as US$70,000 (S$92,965) for a single brand deal, she said.
“It’s like the new American dream,” she said of her experience, adding that her parents had immigrated from South Korea to Los Angeles.
Ms Ok also said she was not worried about potential national security concerns raised by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. “Security and privacy is a No 1 priority for the app,” she said. “It’s top of mind for them.” Critics of the platform say that it could be used to give the Chinese government access to the personal data of its users in the United States.
Throughout the day, a number of other creators would echo TikTok talking points on what it says it is doing to safeguard personal data, including a switch earlier this year to routing American user data through Oracle, rather than servers in China. In June, the company also said it would still keep backups of the data as it made the move.
The creators also leaned heavily on statistics that the platform recently made public, including that 150 million Americans use TikTok, according to TikTok.
Tag gone, heels on, Ms Ok headed for a bus that would take her and her fellow creators to their first stop of the day.
“The bus, this brings back memories,” said Mr Duncan Joseph, a 20-year-old creator, noting that he was last in the nation’s capital for an eighth-grade field trip.
Adding to the field trip vibes were the TikTok representatives who took on the role of de facto chaperones as “Team TikTok” shuttled from place to place, with bathroom breaks along the way.
Mr Joseph said he started making videos on the app in 2020, when he was a junior in high school. Now TikTok is his full-time job. “I’m worried about the big picture with regard to all tech companies,” he said. The idea that all social media apps, not just TikTok, are due for better oversight and regulation was another sound bite the creators offered up Wednesday.
At the first event Wednesday, which took place at a rooftop space on Constitution Avenue, the creators met with a small gathering of reporters to describe what TikTok has meant for them.
Mr Kenny Jarry, 81, said that joining the app two years ago had fundamentally changed his life. A Navy veteran from Minnesota, Mr Jarry now has over 2 million followers. Through a brand partnership, he got new teeth, he said, and his followers also helped him crowd-fund a new mobility scooter.
Ms Ebony Nunez and Ms Denise Nunez, lesbian moms who run a family TikTok account featuring their three children, said they hoped the proposed TikTok ban would not go through. “You’d be taking our family away,” Ebony said. They added that they had left prior careers to focus solely on making content for the app.
Other creators also spoke in favour of TikTok, including several teachers who talked about the importance of the platform to education, and Ms Tiffany Yu, who emphasised how it had supercharged her reach as an advocate for disabled people.
Elsewhere on the rooftop, Ms Naomi Hearts, a 25-year-old creator known for her comedy and fashion content, filmed another video. “I had to fulfill my Elle Woods fantasy,” she said, referring to the heroine of “Legally Blonde 2,” who moves to Washington to pursue a ban on animal testing in cosmetics.
From there, group members took Ubers to the Capitol. The building is regularly filled with people walking with phones glued to their hands, but the group of TikTokers, many of them laughing and filming as they strolled the corridors, offered a palpably different energy.
Ms Hearts and a few others met with staff members from the office of Representative Judy Chu of California. “We talked about how TikTok impacts the community and the U.S. in the positive way,” Ms Hearts said after the meeting. She added that she thought that Ms Chu’s staff was “perceptive,” but “didn’t give us much insight.” Still, she said, she was glad to speak her piece.
The group went to two more meetings, the first with Representative Linda Sanchez of California, the second with staff members from the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein. Afterward, Ms Hearts, only half joking, asked the TikTok representatives if her hotel had a spa and would the company possibly spring for a facial?
When asked if she would be among the TikTok creators who would attend the hearing scheduled for Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one creator said, “What hearing?” It was genuinely hard to tell if she was kidding. Only a few creators from the group ended up going to the event in person.
The last stop was a news conference at the House Triangle outside the Capitol, where a select few creators gave short speeches alongside three elected officials, including Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York, a vocal defender of the app.
Several creators said they were tired and hungry. One seemed to be napping while seated upright on a bench. Nearby, a heckler in a red cap that read “MAGA KING” repeatedly shouted, “TikTok is terrible!” He was removed from the area by Mr Jamal Brown, a member of the TikTok communications team. Mr Brown was previously President Joe Biden’s campaign national press secretary.
As the group posed for photos, Ms Hearts was nowhere to be found. A company representative strode quickly over to the Capitol steps to collect her.
She had been filming a TikTok. It would be posted within the hour. NYT
Actually that's a CCP tactic. Refer to the 'protesters' that were deployed when the Princess of Huawei was detained in Canada.
Chew Shou Zi is a puppet of Tik Tok, of Byte Dance, and of the CCP.
That makes him ideal to be the President of Singapore who is also a puppet of the PAP and the famiLee.
That makes him ideal to be the President of Singapore who is also a puppet of the PAP and the famiLee.
Does it matter who becomes the overpaid Istana puppet when Sinkieland gets sanctioned?
Anyway, the Istana job is reserved for the closest cronies and Familee's 皇亲国戚, the incumbent handpicked token Melayu was just a bone thrown at the Melayu community (and the rabid feminazis) that one of their kind made it to the top, meritocracy and inclusiveness is alive and well under PAP rule etc.
KNN just hang the fucker in front of the Tiong embassy lah!
They got a bunch of old morons who don’t even understand the Internet and how it works to sit there and grill him.
He’s one intelligent guy. Very often, he got stupid questions such as “can you 100% verify that…”
Knn this kind of loaded question, u say yes u sure uplorry
Netizens have the hots for new ‘zaddy’, TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi, after grilling by US lawmakers
Mr Chew was fiercely questioned as he sought to protect his company from a forced sale or potential ban in the country. PHOTO: AFP
Amanda Lee
Correspondent
Mar 24, 2023
Move aside, Pedro Pascal. The Internet has a new “zaddy”: TikTok chief executive Chew Shou Zi.
The 40-year-old Singaporean may have come under intense scrutiny by lawmakers during the US Congress on Thursday, as he sought to assuage US worries over TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, but Mr Chew has captured the hearts of many netizens with his good looks.
“Zaddy”, which originated from a 2016 song by the same name from rap star Ty Dolla $ign, is an Internet slang for an attractive man who is charming, self-confident and stylish.
Across various social media platforms including TikTok, Twitter and Chinese Twitter-like platform Weibo, users have expressed their adoration for Mr Chew.
On TikTok, users have created video compilations of Mr Chew’s photos and videos, expressing their affection for him.
“We stan Tiktok Daddy,” said a user, using the Internet slang for being excessively enthusiastic and devoted to someone.
Another user said: “Pedro Pascal getting a break for now.”
Pedro Pascal was named recently by netizens all over the world as the “Internet daddy” or “zaddy”, thanks to his good looks. PHOTO: AFP
Mr Pascal is a 47-year-old Chilean-born American actor in recent hit shows like the HBO series, The Last of Us and The Mandalorian. He was named recently by netizens all over the world as the “Internet daddy” or “zaddy”, thanks to his good looks.
Another TikTok video featured a slideshow of Mr Chew’s photos with the phrase “Zaddy TikTok” overlaid on it.
One TikTok video featured a slideshow of Mr Chew Shou Zi’s photos with the phrase “Zaddy TikTok” overlaid on it. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM UNFERRETABLE/TIKTOK
On Friday, Twitter user @puriahcarey chose to pun on his name, saying “Shou Yi Chew didn’t just chew, he ate.”
On Weibo, a few users commented on Mr Chew’s looks.
One user compared Mr Chew’s looks with South Korean celebrity actor Jung Sung-il, who stars in the hit Netflix series The Glory.
One user compared Mr Chew’s looks with South Korean actor Jung Sung-il. PHOTOS: EPA-EFE, NETFLIX
The user said that Mr Chew is slim and manages his figure well.
“One look and (you can tell that) he has low body fat,” said the user in Mandarin.
Another user said that Mr Chew is “so handsome” and is a “successful man”.
Mr Chew was fiercely questioned by lawmakers on Thursday during a US Congress hearing, as he sought to protect his company from a forced sale or potential ban in the country.
These so-called "netizens" are propaganda machine of the CCPee lah. Our fucking useless MSM simply have no balls to call them 50-cent tiong dogs.Netizens have the hots for new ‘zaddy’, TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi, after grilling by US lawmakers
Mr Chew was fiercely questioned as he sought to protect his company from a forced sale or potential ban in the country. PHOTO: AFP
Amanda Lee
Correspondent
Mar 24, 2023
Move aside, Pedro Pascal. The Internet has a new “zaddy”: TikTok chief executive Chew Shou Zi.
The 40-year-old Singaporean may have come under intense scrutiny by lawmakers during the US Congress on Thursday, as he sought to assuage US worries over TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, but Mr Chew has captured the hearts of many netizens with his good looks.
“Zaddy”, which originated from a 2016 song by the same name from rap star Ty Dolla $ign, is an Internet slang for an attractive man who is charming, self-confident and stylish.
Across various social media platforms including TikTok, Twitter and Chinese Twitter-like platform Weibo, users have expressed their adoration for Mr Chew.
On TikTok, users have created video compilations of Mr Chew’s photos and videos, expressing their affection for him.
“We stan Tiktok Daddy,” said a user, using the Internet slang for being excessively enthusiastic and devoted to someone.
Another user said: “Pedro Pascal getting a break for now.”
Pedro Pascal was named recently by netizens all over the world as the “Internet daddy” or “zaddy”, thanks to his good looks. PHOTO: AFP
Mr Pascal is a 47-year-old Chilean-born American actor in recent hit shows like the HBO series, The Last of Us and The Mandalorian. He was named recently by netizens all over the world as the “Internet daddy” or “zaddy”, thanks to his good looks.
Another TikTok video featured a slideshow of Mr Chew’s photos with the phrase “Zaddy TikTok” overlaid on it.
One TikTok video featured a slideshow of Mr Chew Shou Zi’s photos with the phrase “Zaddy TikTok” overlaid on it. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM UNFERRETABLE/TIKTOK
On Friday, Twitter user @puriahcarey chose to pun on his name, saying “Shou Yi Chew didn’t just chew, he ate.”
On Weibo, a few users commented on Mr Chew’s looks.
One user compared Mr Chew’s looks with South Korean celebrity actor Jung Sung-il, who stars in the hit Netflix series The Glory.
One user compared Mr Chew’s looks with South Korean actor Jung Sung-il. PHOTOS: EPA-EFE, NETFLIX
The user said that Mr Chew is slim and manages his figure well.
“One look and (you can tell that) he has low body fat,” said the user in Mandarin.
Another user said that Mr Chew is “so handsome” and is a “successful man”.
Mr Chew was fiercely questioned by lawmakers on Thursday during a US Congress hearing, as he sought to protect his company from a forced sale or potential ban in the country.
SPH, CNA have all been compromised by the CCP. Govt-controlled propaganda media, sold to the highest bidder.
Without the support of CCP,Tik Tok will be a fiasco.
Just hang the fucker outside the tiong embassy.
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