{"id":8107,"date":"2020-08-27T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T09:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:59:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T09:59:49","slug":"tiktok-ceo-resigns-because-of-us-pressure-to-sell-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/27\/tiktok-ceo-resigns-because-of-us-pressure-to-sell-the-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiktok CEO resigns because of US pressure to sell the app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TIK TOK CEO Kevin Mayer has resigned due to the US pressure to sell the popular video app which the White House calls a security risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a letter to employees, Mayer said his decision came after the \u201cpolitical environment has sharply changed\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This resignation comes after the US President, Mr. Donald Trump ordered a ban on TikTok unless parent company ByteDance sold its US operations to an American company within 90 days.<br>Mayer said in the letter, &#8220;I have done significant reflection on what the corporate structural changes will require, and what it means for the global role I signed up for.\u201d<br>\u201cAgainst this backdrop, and as we expect to reach a resolution very soon, it is with a heavy heart that I wanted to let you all know that I have decided to leave the company.\u201d<br>Kevin Mayer, the former Disney executive, joined TikTok as CEO in May. Moreover TikTok said it respected Mayer\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIK TOK CEO Kevin Mayer has resigned due to the US pressure to sell the popular video app which the White House calls a security risk.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8107","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}