The White House confirmed an agreement that would grant US companies control of the algorithm and Tiktok data in the US.
Donald Trump’s government announced that the United States will control the algorithm and Data management Tiktok within its territory, in an agreement reached with The Chinese matrix company Bytedonce. The firm could be completed in the next few days, although Beijing not yet pronounced officially about it.
Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt assured that the understanding establishes that Six of the seven members of the Tiktok Board of Directors in the US will be American citizens. In addition, the data administration will be under the responsibility of Oracle, the technology company founded by Larry Ellison, Donald Trump’s political ally.
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Speaking to Fox News, Leavitt said: “Data and privacy management will be in charge of one of the largest technological companies in the US, Oracle, and The algorithm will also be controlled by the US“He added:” So all those details are already agreed. Now We just need this agreement to be signed. “
Trump and his turn with respect to Tiktok
President Donald Trump confirmed that he spoke with his Chinese couple, Xi Jinping, about the future of the application. Through Truth Social described the “productive” talk and thanked Beijing’s guarantee to the negotiations. However, the Xinhua state agency avoided ratifying the approval of the agreement.
The president, who during his first mandate He asked to prohibit Tiktok, changed after strategy. He even used the social network as a tool to connect with young voters in his presidential campaign of 2024.
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One of the main friction points in the negotiations was Who would have the property of the algorithm which customizes the content for the 170 million US users. Trump avoided answering if a national buyer should create a new system or if you can continue with the current one.
Legal and security context
In January, the US Supreme Court confirmed the law that requires Bytedance to detach itself from its operations in the country. Tiktok came to briefly disappear from application storesbut the ban was postponed after new conversations.
The Department of Justice has indicated that Tiktok’s access to data from US users is a risk of national security of “immense depth and scale”.
Source: Ambito
