Juro Osawa / The information:
Internal memo: TikTok plans leadership changes, moving two teams under ByteDance veteran Fiona Zhi and reversing previous efforts to hold Western executives accountable— TikTok is implementing drastic direction changes that bring the video app closer to the orbit of its parent ByteDance…
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