TikTok Steers Its Charm Offensive Around Loudest Critics in DC

There may be no more American form of unwinding than attending a football game. So when TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shouzi Chew and his government policy team had some downtime in Washington on Sept. 21, they headed about a mile and a half south of the Capitol to catch the annual Congressional Football Game. On the field, a team of lawmakers engaged in their annual tradition of getting pushed around by a team of Capitol Police officers, which is more or less the opposite dynamic of the meetings that Chew and his team have been taking lately.

TikTok, the massively ...