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When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew arrived at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in October 2024, he had no intention of criticizing the Saudi government. He was there at its invitation, as a keynote speaker at a conference hosted by the crown prince’s Future Investment Institute (FII), a glitzy annual event billed by its hosts as “Davos in the Desert.”
Shou had a lot else going on during the week of the FII conference. The U.S. presidential election was fast approaching,…
