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TikTok CEO to meet top EU chiefs amid disinformation worries
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will meet EU industry chief Thierry Breton, EU digital chief Vera Jourova and EU antitrust chief Didier Reynders in Brussels next week, TikTok said on Friday.
The visit by Chew, his second to Brussels, comes amid heightened regulatory scrutiny of TikTok's role in the proliferation of disinformation following Hamas' attack on Israel last month and the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Chew will meet Breton on Nov. 6 and Jourova and Reynders on Nov. 7, a TikTok spokesperson said.
He will update the commissioners on TikTok's data security regime called Project Clover which started to store European user data locally this year, a TikTok spokesperson said.
The company has a data centre in Dublin, Ireland, and is building two more in Ireland and Norway.
Chew will also brief them on the company's compliance with new EU online content rules known as the Digital Services Act which requires Big Tech to do more to counter illegal and harmful online content on their platforms, the spokesperson said.
Breton last month gave TikTok an Oct. 25 deadline to provide information on its crisis response measures. He also ordered the company to provide details by Nov. 8 on how it protects the integrity of elections and minors online on its platform.
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