TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew gave a rare public interview at The New York Times’ DealBook conference today, telling host Andrew Ross Sorkin that he is “responsible for all the strategic decisions at TikTok” in response to a question about interference from the Chinese government.
The 40-year-old Chew was funny and relaxed for most of the interview, even if many of his answers sounded straight from the 2010s Zuckerberg / Dorsey social-networking-is-good-for-the-world playbook. Did you know TikTok enables people to express themselves and build communities around shared interests? Chew is particularly proud of booktok, a hashtag community with over 70 billion views that has become a force in the publishing industry. But asked a question about t…
