TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns as Washington pressure mounts

Departure has employees 'more pessimistic' about beating Trump's threatened ban

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CEO Kevin Mayer is leaving TikTok just three months after joining the company from The Walt Disney Co. (Nikkei Montage/Source photos by AP and Getty Images) 

YIFAN YU and COCO LIU, Nikkei staff writers

PALO ALTO, U.S./HONG KONG -- TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has resigned just three months after joining the company, delivering yet another blow to its Chinese parent ByteDance as it battles Washington's crackdown on the viral video app.

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