TikTok, facing a US ban, tells advertisers: We’re here and confident

“TikTok is here — we are here,” Khartoon Weiss, the company’s vice president of global business solutions, told a packed warehouse of advertisers Tuesday in Manhattan. “We are absolutely confident in our platform and confident in the future of this platform,” she declared.

That statement was the closest TikTok advertising executives got to addressing the app’s uncertain fate in the United States in the company’s annual spring pitch to marketers. Under a federal law and executive order, the app is set to be banned in the country next month if the…