Reports suggest that the US will lease the Tiktok -Algorithm from China

With the US government that confirms that it has the framework for a TIKTOK sale deal, prior to this week’s deadline for such a scheme to come into force, more information is now coming to light about how Tiktok will continue to work in the region, in the lines with the the lines ‘Americans protect against foreign opponents’ control Applications ACT. “

Yesterday, the American Minister of Finance Scott Bessent reported That a framework had been set up for a final Tiktok sale deal, which would make the app be sold to an American investor, while also enabling the parent company of Chinese ownership to retain an important ownership interest.

Now more details have been shared about the proposed deal, which, more importantly, will see the Tiktok -Algorithm exist about the user experience, with the American buyer essentially The algorithm leasing the Chinese parent company of Tiktok.

Which may not fully meet the details of the Tiktok Sales Act, which includes qualifications with regard to the operating systems of such platforms, and how the Sales Act applies to these elements. But again, the bill too states that the president can determine the details of a deal of the rejection “With regard to the functioning of an algorithm for content recommendation. “

So it seems that the president can make this call, which will ultimately mean that Tiktok will continue to function as normal in the US in the US

Reports have suggested that the new Tiktok sale deal will probably include Oracle as an important partner. Oracle has long been linked to a Tiktok-US deal, with the company that supports all the Tiktok data separation project in the nation.

Reports have indicated that, as it was first discussed in April, the last sale of Tiktok will see the platform purchased by a US Consortium, that will Be 50% owned by a group consisting of Oracle, BlackRock and Andreenen Horowitz, among other things.

The group, which is called ‘Tiktok America’, will also take the current owner bytedance a 19.9% ​​interest, so that the Chinese parent of Tiktok retains as much control as it is possible under the requirements of the sale account.

It seems that this framework is still the most likely end result for sale, although the more controversial element here was the sale of the Tiktok algorithm, whereby the Chinese government repeatedly notes that it will not sell the all-powerful interest-matching system of the platform.

Now they have apparently found a middle ground about this.

So in the end, after all this negotiation, after years of debates about the safety (or not) of the app, and the ways in which Chinese agents can use Tiktok to steal American user data and/or manipulate Americans with refined algorithmic manipulation.

Despite all this, it seems that Tiktok will remain functionally unchanged, based on what we know so far about the Tiktok-US deal.

Conceptually a new version of Tiktok is specially made for the American market, but that version will use the same systems, and the same algorithms, license from his Chinese parent.

So from a user perspective it will be the same app, where users are then able to continue to experience the never-ending Scroll of Tiktok clips, without the concern that it can be cut off.

Is that a good result?

Well, it depends on what the actual concerns are or were about the app, in which American legislators refuse the share of the details of the concerns they were made aware of, which first led them to vote to cut it off from the Chinese parent.

The speculation is that Tiktok could be used to distribute pro-China messages, and that this is a greater care than the use of American user data. But again, Tiktok has been shown Use US user data to keep track of the activity of journalistsWhile Chinese continues to test American cyber security measures supported by the state in almost any other digitally related space.

In this respect I would say that Tiktok is still a threat, although it depends on the details of the algorithm deal, and how much supervision of US supervisors can have realistic about this.

It seems that not much will be shared about how exactly that algorithm functions, what an important focus was on the Chinese side of the discussions, but we don’t know, and it will probably never do it, so it is impossible to say whether this is a reasonable compromise or not.

But for makers, the fact that Tiktok seems to continue, unchanged and no longer threatened, a good thing.