{"id":27640,"date":"2020-08-26T23:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T06:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27640"},"modified":"2020-08-26T23:50:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T06:50:37","slug":"tiktok-ceo-kevin-mayer-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27640","title":{"rendered":"TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he CEO of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/china\">Chinese<\/a>\u00a0video app\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/tiktok\">TikTok<\/a>\u00a0has resigned after just months on the job following a recent threat by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/donald-trump\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0to ban the app in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese-owned firm has been accused of being a threat to US national security by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mayer joined TikTok in June after leaving his role as Disney&#8217;s head of streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok was given 90 days to be sold to an American firm or face a ban in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In recent weeks, as the political environment has sharply changed, I have done significant reflection on what the\u00a0corporate structural changes\u00a0will require, and what it means for the global role I signed up for,&#8221; Mr Mayer said in a letter to employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he CEO of\u00a0Chinese\u00a0video app\u00a0TikTok\u00a0has resigned after&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27641,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27640\/revisions\/27641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}