The White House describes the Tiktok agreement which would give us control of the algorithm

The White House has announced that American companies will now control Tiktok algorithm and that the Americans will hold six of the seven seats on the board of directors for the US operations in a highly anticipated agreement with China.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that an agreement could be signed “in the coming days”, but that Beijing has not yet commented.

The United States has sought to remove American operations from the video sharing application of the Chinese parent company bytedance for national security reasons.

Tiktok has already been informed that he had to sell his American operations or risk being closed.

But US President Donald Trump has delayed the implementation of the ban four times since his announcement for the first time in January, and earlier this week, extended the deadline again until December.

Leavitt said data and confidentiality of application in the United States will be led by the Giant of Oracle technology, which belongs to Larry Ellison, one of the richest people in the world and a Trump ally.

“Data and confidentiality will be directed by one of the largest technological companies in America, Oracle, and the algorithm will also be controlled by America,” she told Fox News.

“Thus, all these details have already been agreed. Now we just need to sign this offer.”

The son of Mr. Ellison, David Ellison, recently acquired the paramount media company, which owns CBS News, making Ellisons one of the most powerful families in the country in the media.

Trump said on Friday that he and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping approved an agreement on the future of Tiktok American operations during a telephone call, although there was no confirmation from Beijing.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that the call was “productive” and that he “appreciated” the approval of the XI agreement, which would see the American companies of Tiktok sold to a group of American investors.

The official China State news agency, Xinhua, left the results of their less clear discussion, with XI quoted as declared that Beijing “welcomes negotiations on Tiktok”.

A point of collision in the negotiations seems to have been finished which will be the owner of the powerful algorithm which pushes the content to the 170 million American users of Tiktok.

Speaking alongside the British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the United Kingdom on Thursday, Trump has circumvented a question of a journalist to find out if an American buyer should build a new algorithm, or if he could continue to use the current algorithm.

While Trump initially called for Tiktok to be prohibited during his first mandate, he changed CAP. He turned to the extremely popular platform to stimulate his support among young Americans during his successful presidential campaign in 2024.

In January, the United States Supreme Court confirmed a law adopted at the beginning of 2024, prohibiting the application unless Bytedance was deactivated from its American operations. The application became “dark” only briefly at the time, before the ban was delayed.

The United States Ministry of Justice had previously expressed its concerns that Tiktok’s access to American user data was a threat of national security of immense depth and scale. “