TikTok Chief Operating Officer Vanessa Pappas faced tough questions from U.S. senators in a hearing this afternoon about the social media giant’s ties to the Chinese government. Senator Josh Hawley, citing reporting from Forbes, expressed frustration that Pappas would not say whether any Chinese employees working on TikTok are members of the Chinese Communist Party. Hawley asked: “Are there members of the Chinese Communist Party employed by TikTok or ByteDance, or no?” Pappas answered that no person who “makes a strategic decision at this platform” is a CCP member. But with respect to the rest of the app’s staff, she...