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TikTok merges its Core Product and Trust & Safety teams
As part of the changes, TikTok's head of Operations and Trust & Safety Adam Presser will become the General Manager of TikTok USDS, a separate entity of TikTok that's tasked with safeguarding U.S. national security interests, TechCrunch confirmed with TikTok.
Andy Bonillo, the current General Manager of TikTok USDS, who led the organization’s creation and growth, will transition to a new role as Senior Advisor, reporting to Presser. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said last week that TikTok will go dark in the country if China doesn’t approve a deal for the sale of the app. Given the tense situation, which comes in the middle of a tariff war with China, it would not be surprising to see TikTok trying to beef up its USDS team as its U.S. deal hangs in the balance.
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