TikTok executive leaves ahead of impending ban

Published January 8, 2025 3:29pm ET



TikTok‘s general manager of agency business for its U.S. arm left the social media platform.

This comes as a pending law would pressure China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok for the social media platform to be hosted by app stores in the United States. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law, but it will not go into effect until Jan. 19. President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear he would like the Supreme Court to stop the ban from going into effect.

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