TikTok Appoints This Key Figure to

Fail to Block Joe Biden in the US

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The general advisor of TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, Erich Andersen, will resign from his position in June. He will focus on developing efforts to thwart the sale of the video application in the United States.

Andersen will remain at the short video company and serve as a special advisor to lead TikTok’s efforts to overturn the law (UU) signed by President Joe Biden.

The law gives ByteDance 270 days to divest short-video app TikTok in the United States or it will be blocked completely.

TikTok said this week that it plans to file a lawsuit challenging II, but it declined to say when it plans to do so.

Andersen was a key player in TikTok’s success in facing headwinds in 2020 against the Trump administration’s efforts to ban TikTok and last year which resulted in a judge blocking a ban in the state of Montana.

TikTok has repeatedly stated that it has not shared and will not share US user data with the Chinese government. They will challenge the bill on First Amendment grounds and TikTok users are also expected to take legal action again.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew praised Andersen and said he was pleased Andersen had agreed to take on a special advisory role to focus on the very important missions facing the company, as quoted by Reuters, Monday (29/4/2024).

Chew said the company hopes to win a lawsuit to overturn a law that could ban the app from use by 170 million Americans.

Source : CNBC INDONESIA