Appearing Tiktok deal with China It is guaranteed that American companies control the algorithm that owns the video filter of the application, and the Americans will occupy most places on the Council of Directors, observing US operations, White House He said on Saturday.
The central question to tugting the war between Washington and Beijing is whether the popular social video platform will preserve after a potential refusal of the Chinese maternal company ButterflyField
Congress adopted legislation calling for the ban on Tiktok enter into force in January, but the president of the USA Donald Trump He repeatedly signed orders that allowed Tiktok to continue to work in the United States, since his administration is trying to reach the Baedance Agreement on the sale of his US operations.
Press -secretary of the White House Caroline Lithvt The specified technical giant Oracle will be responsible for the data and security of the application and that the Americans will control six of the seven places for the planned council.
“We are 100 percent sure that the deal is concluded in the transaction, now that the transaction just must be signed, and the president’s team works with his Chinese colleagues to do this,” Leavitt Said Fox News' Saturday in AmericaThe field day earlier, Trump and China Xi Jining discussed Tiktok transaction on a long phone.
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Livitt said that “the algorithm will also be controlled by America,” offering more detailed information about how the transaction is at least in the eyes of the White House.
The Tiktok algorithm files what users see in the application. American officials warned that the algorithm is vulnerable to manipulate the Chinese authorities who can use it to form content on the platform as difficult to detect.
Trump said after his calling with Si that American investors were built in line and that the Chinese leader was a “gentleman” about this. The President of the Republicans was vague in the decisive issue of whether China would control the algorithm.
“This is all developed,” Trump said. “We will have very good control.”
After this, the phone call was not clarified in the China government that the XI agreed on the sale of the Tiktok Chinese Maternal Company to avoid the ban on the US ban.
Livitt said that Trump “recognized the need to protect the confidentiality and data of Americans, and also holds this application open”, adding that “Tiktok is a vital part of our democratic process”.
Recent Examination of the research center I drink He found that about a third of the Americans said that they supported the ban on the ticktok, compared with 50 percent in March 2023. About one third said that they would withstand the ban, and a similar percentage said that they were not sure.
Among those who said that they supported the ban on the platform of social networks, about 8 out of 10 problems mentioned with the fact that the safety of user data is at risk, as the main factor in their solution, according to the report.
Livitt expressed confidence that the agreement would be completed soon. “Now we just need this deal to be signed,” she said. “And this will happen, I expect, in the coming days.”
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