Today, members of Congress who have never used TikTok will be calling for the ban of a free-expression platform used by 150 million across the U.S. We're covering it all here:

washingtonpost.com/technology/202… I got lunch with TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew last month. He's a Singapore-born, Harvard-educated, former Facebook intern: "It’ll be a real shame if our users around the world are not able to hear" U.S. voices anymore wapo.st/40a34wq

New: Our big preview of TikTok chief Shou Zi Chew's upcoming congressional testimony. "If you give them the power to ban social media companies, you think this is going to be the only time it happens?” wapo.st/3LIPeNi Shou Zi Chew, the 40-year-old former Facebook intern now leading TikTok, runs a company that's increasingly more influential in the U.S. than Mark Zuckerberg's or Elon Musk's. And virtually no one here knows who he is.

Free-to-read link: wapo.st/3LI5Xjz

New: A college student used public data to create a Twitter account following @elonmusk's jet. But the billionaire "free speech absolutist" didn't like it. Now it's gone. Elon "literally said he was keeping my account up for free speech" wapo.st/3YrxDNu w/ @faizsays @elonmusk @faizsays It's not just @ElonJet that's suspended. All of @JxckSweeney's accounts for mapping air travel, plus his personal one, are now gone. No explanation, and totally goes against what Musk said last month:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

New: Will Wilkerson helped create Trump's media company. He even posted Trump's first "truth" on Truth Social. Now he alleges the company violated securities laws and that Trump pressured executives to give their shares to his wife. And there are tapes wapo.st/3exJGH0


Wilkerson has emails. In one, Trump Media co-founder Andy Litinsky, an "Apprentice" contestant who once praised Trump's loyalty, said Trump had "repeatedly demanded" he give his equity to Melania. When he refused, he said, he was kicked off the board wapo.st/3exJGH0

On Trump's new social network, TRUTH Social, you can post TRUTHs, which are like tweets, or Re-TRUTHs, which are retweets. There's also a TRUTH Feed and notifications so you can know who’s interacting with your TRUTH’s Trump's social network is where families will come together to have an amazing time and share their viewpoints of the world. "We welcome these varied opinions," Trump's social network said apple.co/3DXCHyg