US Companies Will Now Control Tiktok's Algorithm

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The White House has announced that US companies will now control TikTok's algorithm and Americans will hold six of seven board seats for the app's US operations in a much-anticipated deal with China.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said a deal could be signed "in the coming days", but Beijing is yet to comment.

The US has sought to take the video-sharing app's US operations away from Chinese parent company ByteDance for national security reasons.

TikTok was previously told it had to sell its US operations or risk being shut down.

But US President Donald Trump delayed implementing the ban four times since it was first announced in January, and earlier this week extended the deadline again to December.

Leavitt said that data and privacy for the app in the US will be led by tech giant Oracle, which is chaired by Larry Ellison, one of the world's richest people and a Trump ally.

"The data and privacy will be led by one of America's greatest tech companies, Oracle, and the algorithm will also be controlled by America as well," she told Fox News.

"So all of those details have already been agreed upon. Now we just need this deal to be signed."

Mr Ellison's son, David Ellison, recently acquired media company Paramount, which owns CBS News, making the Ellisons one of the country's most powerful families in media.

Trump said on Friday that he and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping approved a deal on the future of TikTok's US operations during a phone call, although there was no confirmation from Beijing.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that the call was "productive" and he "appreciated" Xi's approval of deal, which would reportedly see TikTok's US business sold to a group of US investors.

On Saturday, China's Commerce Ministry issued a statement that was less clear on the prospect of a deal: "China's position on TikTok is clear: The Chinese government respects the wishes of the enterprise, and welcomes it to carry out commercial negotiations in accordance with market rules to reach a solution compliant with China's laws and regulations, and strikes a balance of interests."

China's official state news agency Xinhua left the outcome of their discussion less clear, with Xi quoted as saying that Beijing "welcomes negotiations over TikTok".

A sticking point in negotiations appears to have been over who will own the powerful algorithm that pushes content to TikTok's 170 million American users.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89dd747yz7o

[Morphine Prince 109,645]

Oh the Hitler youth that they will awake will be insane.

[Emvee 8,825]

Look at them giggle at the prospect of more censorship. 

[Addison Rae 18,074]

what in the black mirror episode is going awn in the us mama…

[Lord Mayhem 3,414]

Yay...more MAGA racist homophobic xenophobic misogynistic daily indoctrination 

[gagzus 22,919]

You know… I can recall another white man who made the government control other forms of media in history but I can’t put my finger on it  oh wait 

[calmar 22,766]

I sure wish Canadians didn't hate our guts right now, we need to get outta here and go *somewhere*... 

[27monster27 15,846]

Trump uses the term "productive" almost every time he has a meeting. He has used the term countless times in meetings with Putin and Zelensky. The word has no meaning.

That aside, I agree that this will be similar to Twitter in terms of the indoctrination. Elon buying Twitter played a huge role in the 2024 election results, and TikTok becoming pro-MAGA will undoubtedly sway people to authoritarianism at an unprecedented rate. The thing is that Xi Jinping knows this. Xi knows how awful Trump is, and it is precisely why he is using the TikTok issue to help keep Trump in power. MAGA in control = weaker US.

[Ziggy 14,009]

This app is honestly such a flop lmfao 

[Ivy 13,718]

I hate this 

[Squeeshy Keety 9,935]

5 hours ago, Lord Mayhem said:

Yay...more MAGA racist homophobic xenophobic misogynistic daily indoctrination 

Don't forget transphobic