How STANS K-POP set the scene to ban US Tiktok ban

At that time President Trump returned to his position earlier this year, with the fate of Tiktok. Congress had approved and the President Biden had signed a law that banned or sold the program until the day before the boycott. But Trump has announced that he would effectively pause the law. Instead, he said that by delaying a sales brokerage, he would save the program.

Now, Trump’s attempt has been made to make the sale: Last week, the White House announced a plan for the Chinese parenting company Tiktok, ByTedance, to authorize a copy of the program’s algorithm to a consortium of investor, at least some of them were Trump’s political supporters. If the plan is finalized, the US trade Tiktok will fall at the moment of unprecedented media integration by Trump’s powerful allies.

But this transfer, if it happens, challenges the culture that defines Tiktok in its early days. This excerpt from my book, Every plate on Earth: War over TiktokOne of the company’s first and foremost companies to track Trump: a group of young Tiktokkers to joke the president and attend the tank in one of their election rallies. At that time, this stunt was largely rejected as a funny – but also showed how Tiktok and the people they use can shape our policy in the coming years.

Kevin Meyer Six feet, four inches height, with a square jaw, light eyes and deep sound. He is made like an offensive collision – a position he once played in the MIT football team – and this has a unfortunate habit of sending emails with people in all hats. When the founder of the Bytedance, Zhang Yiming approached him for the first time about the CEO of Tiktok, he had served as CEO in Disney for more than 20 years, where he had moved to lead the Disney+ platform. He was a candidate to replace the legendary Congo CEO, Bob Iger, when he withdrew in early 2020.

Yiming approached Kevin at the beginning of the epidemic. As the cinemas turned off, Disney’s landscape had become a repository. But Tiktok was a missile ship that Kevin, 58, decided to board.

“I’m not younger,” he said.

In May 2020, Kevin accepted a proposal to become Tiktok World CEO and senior Operation by Bytedance. Tiktok was as much as Disney+ or Netflix like Facebook or Google. Obviously the content produced by the user was a new and different animal for Kevin. The challenge of studying what people watched and convinced them to watch more was familiar – as it was the task of the yard and encouraging advertisers that this platform offered the best value for its money.

Kevin was bright, involved and well with the number. “Every meeting with Kevin had a lot of energy,” said one of the executives he worked with. He was more supportive than Alex and was not the software engineer, but that was the case. This means that he has not developed or expanded as many strong ideas about how Tiktok technology works – a topic that Yiming had previously felt strongly about. He could better focus on executive decisions and show tiktok staff and other parts of the world.

For many byTedance employees, hiring Kevin meant that there would be IPO. IPOS – “Primary General Offers” – The vehicle with which private companies are publicly allowed to sell their stocks and employees. Going to the public was a final moment for a startup, and most of the ByTedance rivals, both in the United States and China, had earned a lot of money to do so.