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White House outlines TikTok deal that would give US control of algorithm


The White House said a deal could be signed "in the coming days", but Beijing is yet to comment.

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. 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. The US Department of Justice previously expressed concerns that TikTok's access to the data of US users posed a national security threat of "immense depth and scale".

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