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1.With the newly merged social platform and a consolidated user-base of uniquely young social media users from both Western and Eastern Hemispheres, TikTok catapulted ByteDance to become a dominant force in the global technology industry and laid the centerpiece for expansion into adjacent sectors, such as gaming, financial technology and e-commerce to challenge the incumbents at BAT. Most recently, TikTok surpassed two billion downloads to become the fastest-growing social media platform in history and hired Disney’s head of streaming, Kevin Mayer, to bring it to greater heights.