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TikTok CEO argues U.S. needs the Chinese app to spur social-media competition

Kevin Mayer’s comments come as the chief executives of Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Alphabet are set to appear before U.S. lawmakers to address concerns they have become too dominant in their markets U.S. advertisers would be left with few choices and social media competition would dry up without TikTok, Kevin Mayer, the new CEO of the popular short video app that is owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. Mayer’s comments come as the chief executives of Amaz…

 

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