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U.S. TikTok Employees Flee to Meta, Google

The Information · Kaya Yurieff · last updated

As uncertainty around TikTok’s future has built for months, some U.S.-based employees at the short-form video app have left for other companies. 

Nearly one in ten of those departures have been to Meta Platforms, the parent of Instagram and Facebook, according to a new analysis from Live Data Technologies, which tracks personnel movements based on public information on job changes. The data includes more than 800 departures of U.S. TikTok employees since July. 

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