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Investing.com -- TikTok has appointed former Boeing government affairs chief Ziad Ojakli as its head of public policy for the Americas, the company announced Tuesday.
The appointment comes as TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance works to finalize a deal to divest approximately 80% of the short video app’s U.S. assets to a consortium of U.S. and global investors.
ByteDance is under pressure to complete this separation to comply with national security requirements established in a 2024 law. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in September that gives the companies until late January to finalize the transaction.
The divestiture plan represents ByteDance’s effort to address U.S. government concerns while maintaining TikTok’s operations in the American market.
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