In addition to his CEO responsibilities, Mayer became chief operating officer of ByteDance, TikTok's parent company. Since then, though, TikTok has come under fire from the US government, and Trump has threatened to ban the app if it isn't sold by ByteDance. The company said Trump's order illegally rests on emergency powers law in ways that do not apply to TikTok. That still trails Facebook's 2.7 billion monthly active users, but the app is also considerably younger than its US rival. By August 2020, TikTok said it had surpassed two billion global downloads.

Source: CNN August 27, 2020 04:43 UTC