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
Here's all you need to knowAnkita Chakravarti /Moneycontrol:TikTok avoids US ban after sealing last-minute dealJoy Chakravarty /Arabian Business:Abu Dhabi's MGX buys 15% stake to keep TikTok alive in the USAntonio Pequeño IV /Forbes Australia:A deal for TikTok has been finalised. Here's what it means.Ukrainian National News:TikTok remains in the US: 200 million users under investor control after deal completionShalom Levytam /iClarified:TikTok Finalizes U.S. Joint Venture to Secure App's Operati
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Report: US, China Approve TikTok Ownership Deal
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@adamconner
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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]
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@sarafischer
Sara Fischer
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#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/...
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@dylanbyers
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TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga https://www.nytimes.com/... via @NYTimes
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@adamconner
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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/ ..…
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@judah-grunstein
Judah Grunstein
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“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.
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@amanbatheja
Aman Batheja
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“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”
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@nitishpahwa.com
Nitish Pahwa
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wrote about the TikTok deal, a terrible arrangement made by terrible people for terrible reasons slate.com/technology/2...
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@maryannefranks
Mary Anne Franks
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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...
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@evelyndouek
Evelyn Douek
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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...
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@bobbyallyn
Bobby Allyn
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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…
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@evacide
@evacide
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Will this deal turn US TikTok into a propaganda tool for the Trump administration? Probably, yes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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