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Mayer's departure has been anticipated by the Financial Times , which reported that CEO Vanessa Pappas will be in charge of acting as interim CEO. A spokesperson for the company told Business Insider in a statement that they thank Mayer for "his time at the company" and wish him "the best," while also admitting that the political situation may have influenced his departure. "We understand that the political dynamics of recent months have significantly changed the scope of Kevin's position , and we fully respect his decision," TikTok explained in a statement.
TikTok, between Trump's veto and the desire to purchase Microsoft Donald Trump, president of the United States Donald Trump, President of the United States David T. Foster/Pool via REUTERS The Lithuania Mobile Number List departure of the CEO occurs at a very delicate moment for the popular instant video application , the favorite of Generation Z, which has some 800 million active users around the world , but has been in the eye of the hurricane in the United States for months. US President Donald Trump's repeated intention to ban its use in the country , which resulted in two executive orders that will prevent Americans from making transactions with TikTok and WeChat starting September 15 .
Trump considers that TikTok could be a spy tool for the Chinese government and has included it as one of the objectives of his Clean Network strategy , with which he intends to fight against alleged Chinese propaganda and which is also directed against the WeChat messaging platform of Tencent . TikTok's response to Trump came this Monday, when it sued the US president for prohibiting any transaction or business with a US company , understanding that this administrative order "is not based on genuine national security concerns." Read more: TikTok and Chinese espionage: a link not yet proven The concern about the short video platform is not exclusive to Trump, several international cybersecurity experts have also warned about the cybersecurity problems of TikTok , which stores information about the type of device, the applications installed, the networks to which it connects.