TikTok Inc.
Lobbying client
TikTok is a short-form video social media platform owned by ByteDance, a Chinese technology company that acquired the app Musical.ly in 2017 and merged it into TikTok. TikTok Inc. has filed 19 NYC lobbying registrations since 2024, registered citywide and reporting contact with all 51 City Council members through lobbyist Statewide Public Affairs, Inc., on local legislation covering technology access and privacy and technology and social media safety, with reported compensation of about $237,400.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 19
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $237,416
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Statewide Public Affairs, Inc. Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - issues relating to technology
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - issues relating to technology access and privacy issues
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - issues relating to technology and safety
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - tech/social media
Congressional testimony
Congressional committee meetings where congress.gov lists a witness whose stated affiliation is exactly this organization's name, for the 118th and 119th Congresses, as of 2026-09-01. Name variations are not matched, so an appearance filed under a different spelling of this organization is missing
- TikTok: How Congress Can Safeguard American Data Privacy and Protect Children from Online Harms House Energy and Commerce 2023-03-23