Sapna Maheshwari and Steven Lee Myers

Chinese Officials Flock to Twitter to Defend TikTok

When members of Congress grilled TikTok’s chief executive last month on Capitol Hill, the app’s supporters sprang to its defense online. The lawmakers were “old, tech-illiterate,” one said. “Out of touch, paranoid and self-righteous,” said another. The hourslong hearing “destroyed the illusion…