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TikTok’s Irish headcount to top 3,000 as new jobs announced

Popular video-sharing platform to create 1,000 new jobs in Ireland

Taoiseach Michéal Martin and Shou Zi Chew, the TikTok CEO, at the jobs announcement today. Picture: Maxwells

TikTok is to create an additional 1,000 jobs in Ireland, the company has said.

The announcement comes as the video-sharing platform's chief executive Shou Zi Chew paid a visit to Ireland.

The company, which already employs more than 2,000 people here, established a “trust and safety” hub in Dublin in early 2020. Since then, it has also developed a cybersecurity centre and a transparency and accountability operation locally. In addition, the European privacy legal team ...