TikTok General Counsel to Move to New Role Focused on Fighting US Sale

TikTok General Counsel to Move to New Role Focused on Fighting US Sale
A smartphone with a displayed TikTok logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken February 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
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WASHINGTON -Erich Andersen, general counsel for TikTok and Chinese parent company ByteDance, will step down from that role in June to focus on fighting efforts to force a sale of the video app in the U.S., the company said on Friday.

Andersen will remain at the company and become its special counsel to lead TikTok’s effort to overturn legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden on Wednesday that gives ByteDance 270 days to divest short-video app TikTok in the United States or face a ban.