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Trump Administration Teases Surprise Buyer For TikTok

“I would say yes.”

So declared President Donald Trump during another surprise revelation, in which Microsoft was revealed to be a viable contender in the potential purchase of TikTok.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly looking into a potential buyout of the Chinese social media company, potentially in collaboration with Oracle.

Per a report from the NPR, both Microsoft and Oracle might become the viable owners of TikTok in the future if a deal can be reached.

“The Trump administration is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app’s global operations, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks,” NPR detailed.

Direct knowledge from credible sources. If only all media were run by these criteria.

“Under the deal now being negotiated by the White House, TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance would retain a minority stake in the company, but the app’s algorithm, data collection and software updates will be overseen by Oracle, which already provides the foundation of TikTok’s web infrastructure,” NPR continued.

So, in other words, a potential issue with backdoors still remains. It is quite clear that some nations are incredibly crafty at advancing rapidly economically, especially if they are able to leapfrog through using other nations’ intellectual property.

Intellectual property primarily accessible in the first place due to globalization initiatives, ironically.

That said, since a TikTok ban would apparently – and bizarrely – started an effective riot, it is no surprise that Trump is working hard to preserve Americans’ personal interests while reconciling legitimate national security concerns.

Chiefly through a deal in which Americans take ownership and foreign threats are significantly minimized.

“I have spoken to many people about TikTok and there is great interest in TikTok,” Trump noted.

Without a doubt. In addition to Microsoft and Oracle, everyone from Elon Musk to famed YouTuber “Mr. Beast” is apparently in the running to be a potential TikTok investor.

“We’ll see what happens. We’re going to have a lot of people bidding on it. If we can save all that voice and all the jobs, and China won’t be involved, we don’t want China involved, but we’ll see what happens,” Trump noted.

The details of which are definitely still needed.

“The goal is for Oracle to effectively monitor and provide oversight with what is going on with TikTok. ByteDance wouldn’t completely go away, but it would minimize Chinese ownership,” the NPR source noted.

It will be interesting to see to which degree minimizing may occur.

Varied security experts have doubts.

Sarah Kreps, a researcher who focuses on technology and foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, has highlighted the extreme difficulties of assuring national security.

“The question that has always been difficult to answer is how do you prove a negative? How do you prove the absence of Chinese control of data and the algorithm? You can audit millions of lines of code, but it’s really hard to show one way or the other,” Kreps remarked.

How indeed?

Hopefully, the Trump administration will be just as explicit on how national security terms are addressed as it is on the monetary value of the deal, should a deal actually arise.

Author: Ofelia Thornton


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