WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republican Representative Mike Gallagher met with TikTok on Wednesday about the Chinese-owned short video app’s U.S. data security plans but still plans to seek to ban TikTok in the United States, a spokesperson for the lawmaker said.
Gallagher, the Republican chair of a U.S. House of Representatives select committee on China, met with Will Farrell, interim security officer at TikTok U.S Data Security.
The lawmaker “appreciated their time but found their argument unpersuasive,” Gallagher spokesperson Jordan Dunn said.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Sandra Maler)
