TikTok Hires New Public Policy Chief for the Americas — As ‘TikTok USA’ Edges Oh-So-Close to Reality

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TikTok names former Boeing vice president of government affairs Ziad Ojakli as the platform’s head of public policy for the Americas.
As TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance works to complete the deal to separate its U.S. assets, TikTok has named former Boeing government affairs vice president Ziad Ojakli as its head of public policy for the Americas.
The news comes as the company works to sell around 80% of its stake in TikTok’s U.S. assets t