TikTok US Trust & Safety Head Exits Role as Pressure Mounts (1)

One of TikTok’s senior-most officials in charge of ensuring user safety is leaving the company amid increasing pressure for the US government to ban the popular video-sharing app.

Eric Han, who has led TikTok’s US trust and safety operations for years, will depart this month, a person briefed on the matter said. Han had been promoted to lead trust and safety at the company’s newly walled-off US data operations in December.

Han has been one of the most prominent officials in TikTok’s all-out effort to convince skeptical lawmakers and policy makers that the app is safe for US ...