White House outlines TikTok deal that would give US control of algorithm
The White House announced that US companies will now control Tiktok’s algorithm, and that the Americans will regulate six of the seven board seats for US operations with an expected agreement with China.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that “in the coming days” can be signed, but Beijing has not yet commented.
The United States tried to remove the US operations of the US operations from the Main Company for national security reasons.
Tiktok was told that he should have previously sold US operations or a risk of closing.
However, US President Donald Trump postponed the ban four times since it was first announced in January, and at the beginning of this week, the last date again extended until December.
Leavitt said that data and confidentiality for the US application will be managed by Larry Ellison’s technology giant Oracle, one of the richest people in the world and a Trump ally.
“Data and Privacy will be managed by Oracle, one of the largest technology companies in America, and the algorithm will be controlled by the United States,” he said.
He continued: “So all these details have already been reached. Now only this agreement needs to be signed.”
David Ellison, the son of Ellison, recently acquired Paramount, the media company, which has recently owned the CBS News, and made Ellisons one of the most powerful families in the media.
Trump said on Friday, he and his Chinese colleague Xi Jinping approved an agreement Although Tiktok did not have any approval from Beijing about the future of Tiktok during a telephone conversation.
Trump wrote that his call for Truth Social was “productive” and “appreciated the” approval of the agreement that Xi will see that Tiktok’s US business was sold to a group of US investors.
China’s official state news agency Xinhua left the outcome of its debate less and Xi said Beijing “welcomed the negotiations on Tiktok”.
A point of adhesion in the negotiations seems to have a strong algorithm that pushes Tiktok’s 170 million American users.
Speaking with British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in England on Thursday, Trump had no question about whether an American recipient from a reporter had to create a new algorithm or whether they could continue to use the current algorithm.
Trump initially changed the route while he wanted to be banned in the first period of Tiktok. During the 2024 presidential campaign, it turned into a very popular platform to increase its support among young Americans.
In January, the US Supreme Court first approved a law at the beginning of 2024 and banned the implementation unless the US operations left. Before the application was postponed, the application only went “dark”.
The US Department of Justice previously expressed concerns that Tiktok’s access to US users’ data pose a national security threat to “enormous depth and scale”.
