The US' TikTok deal is a win for ByteDance: it will keep and license the algorithm instead of selling it, and continue to run TikTok's commercial activities
Financial Times Jim Secreto
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@chrisfralic
Chris Fralic
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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
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@jimgeraghty
Jim Geraghty
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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