TikTok's uncertain future in the US.

TikTok's CEO, Shou Zi Chew, will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to convince lawmakers that the app isn't a Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party. However, TikTok is facing significant headwinds, including a new Justice Department investigation, a flurry of counter-TikTok bills on Capitol Hill, and the White House's threat to ban the app unless it separates from ByteDance, its China-based parent company. TikTok's arguments for trust, building a wall between the US subsidiary and its Chinese owners, and lawmakers' attention being better directed at a national data privacy law are losing ground.