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ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga

TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok …

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  • Newsmax Solange Reyner on x
    Report: US, China Approve TikTok Ownership Deal
  • @adamconner @adamconner on x
    Incredible they are not even going to tell us what other ByteDance apps new TikTok US owns. Here's the list of the ByteDance apps Apple banned from the App Store in January 2024 when the ban took effect. https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ... https://techcrunch.com/... [image]
  • @adamconner @adamconner on x
    If true, and this is the Jan 22nd deadline where the illegal non-enforcement ban expires, then hopefully we'll get some answers to questions about the TikTok deal and if it even complies with the law that I raised in my December @amprog piece. https://www.americanprogress.org/ ..…
  • @dylanbyers Dylan Byers on x
    TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga https://www.nytimes.com/... via @NYTimes
  • @chrisrmcguire Chris McGuire on x
    We finally have details on the investors in the U.S. TikTok: ByteDance 19.9%, SilverLake 15%, Oracle 15%, MGX 15%, all other investors combined: 35.1% So after years of negotiating a divestment deal, the largest investor in the new U.S. TikTok is...ByteDance. Seems not ideal.
  • @evelyndouek Evelyn Douek on bluesky
    Almost as if allowing the government to broker the terms for the continued operation of a major communications platform is a bad idea and a democratic threat and something there should be a constitutional bar against  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
  • @evacide @evacide on bluesky
    Will this deal turn US TikTok into a propaganda tool for the Trump administration?  Probably, yes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
  • @bobbyallyn Bobby Allyn on bluesky
    China is outlawed from having an “operational relationship” w TikTok, but the finalized deal keeps ByteDance a minority investor & lets them own the algorithm.  Far from a clean break from China.  —  What it DOES do is hand Larry Ellison's Oracle, the Emiratis and Silver Lake eno…
  • @maryannefranks Mary Anne Franks on bluesky
    Succinctly put by @anupamchander.bsky.social: “My worry all along is that we may have traded fears of foreign propaganda for the reality of domestic propaganda” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
  • r/DeepStateCentrism r on reddit
    TikTok Strikes Deal to Split Off an American Version, Ending Long Legal Saga
  • @sarafischer Sara Fischer on x
    #BREAKING: @TikTok divestiture deal closes - Steve Case's Revolution Ventures, Michael Dell's Family office & Alpha Wave all investors, in addition to Oracle, MGX Silver Lake - $14B deal is a fire sale to avoid a lawsuits TikTok lives to see another day https://www.axios.com/...
  • r/WallStreetbetsELITE r on reddit
    China approves to sell TIKTOK US to MAGA Investors ...
  • @judah-grunstein Judah Grunstein on bluesky
    “Mr. Trump formally delayed the enforcement of the law several times after he took office again last January” is an interesting way of saying Trump manifestly broke the law by possible any reading of it.  —  Minor compared to his other crimes, but still.
  • @amanbatheja Aman Batheja on bluesky
    “ByteDance will keep TikTok's coveted algorithm, which it will license to the new U.S. entity.  —  “That arrangement may fall short of the 2024 law, which required the divestment to end any ‘operational relationship’ between ByteDance and TikTok in the United States”
  • r/technology r on reddit
    TikTok Strikes Deal to Create New U.S. Entity and Loosen App's Ties to China
  • @chrisfralic Chris Fralic on x
    Licensing is not ownership and monitoring is not control. As long as ByteDance retains the ability to alter the algorithm from Beijing, the CCP will preserve one of its most powerful tools for influencing American minds and waging psychological warfare against the West. The
  • @jimgeraghty Jim Geraghty on x
    The Trump administration has given its blessing to a deal that allows ByteDance to keep 19.9 percent of the company, keeps the new U.S. entity run by a longtime TikTok senior executive, and that will “retrain the algorithm on U.S. data.” This is a complete violation of the law
  • @nitishpahwa.com Nitish Pahwa on bluesky
    wrote about the TikTok deal, a terrible arrangement made by terrible people for terrible reasons slate.com/technology/2...
  • r/TikTok r on reddit
    TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users.  Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes