TikTok is Mark Zuckerberg's worst nightmare and now it's reportedly poaching Facebook's employees too

• TikTok recently opened an office in Mountain View, California, in a location formerly occupied by Facebook's messaging app WhatsApp.
• TikTok has hired more than two dozen employees from Facebook, along with staffers from Hulu, Apple, and Google, CNBC reports.
• In 2018, Facebook launched a video app called Lasso to directly compete with TikTok, which is estimated to have been downloaded fewer than 500,000 times, compared to TikTok's 500 million plus.
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