(Dharshini.G, intern journalist) London: TikTok has been in conversations with the UK government in the course of recent months to shift its headquarters to London, a source acquainted with the issue stated, as a strategy to distance itself from its Chinese ownership.
London is among one of the locations the organization is thinking about, yet no decisions have been made, the source said.
It was not promptly clear what other locations are taken into consideration. Be that as it may, it has hired aggressively in California this year, including poaching Kevin Mayer, a previous Walt Disney Co official, to be TikTok’s CEO. He is based in the United States.
TikTok is facing overwhelming investigation in Washington over doubts China could drive the organization to turn over user information. TikTok is owned by China-based ByteDance.