"You can confirm that things like taking down a private Instagram account and adjusting your policies at the behest of the White House, and putting into place misinformation policies at the behest of CDC, that those things, you think, are appropriate, that this was company policy to do so. Is that fa..."
"But the United States government is subject to the First Amendment. I think we can probably all agree on."
"You did not just consult them to understand how they affected public health, you actually censored on their behalf."
"My view is that the United States government is bound by the First Amendment."
"Would it surprise you to learn that Forbes magazine recently reported that at least 300 current TikTok or ByteDance employees were members of Chinese State media and affiliated with the Chinese Commun..."
"I think, for my own point of view, that is a huge security problem."
"Membership in the Chinese Communist Party is not exactly like membership in the Democratic Party."
"I think you are telling me that there are TikTok employees or ByteDance employees who are members of the Chinese Communist Party."
"You will not answer that."
"None of them are members of the Chinese Community Party?"
"You have employees in China and ByteDance has employees in China."