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Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok | "TikTok is going to go dark," commerce secretary warns as negotiations falter.
“TikTok is going to go dark,” commerce secretary warns as negotiations falter.
But then, he put Vice President JD Vance in charge of the deal, and after months of negotiations, the US still doesn't seem to have found terms for a sale that the Chinese government is willing to approve. In January, a ByteDance board member, Bill Ford, told World Economic Forum attendees that a non-sale option "could involve a change of control locally to ensure" TikTok "complies with US legislation" without selling off the app or its algorithm. At this point, Lutnick suggested that the US is unwilling to bend on the requirement that the US control the recommendation algorithm, which is viewed as the secret sauce that makes the app so popular globally.
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