{"id":679,"date":"2025-09-18T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:00:18","slug":"key-republican-raises-concerns-about-reported-tiktok-spinoff-reliance-on-chinese-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/key-republican-raises-concerns-about-reported-tiktok-spinoff-reliance-on-chinese-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Republican raises concerns about reported TikTok spinoff reliance on Chinese algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, raised concerns Wednesday about the ongoing reliance of a potential TikTok spinoff on an algorithm from its China-based parent company as the Trump administration nears a deal on the app.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday that the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/5504164-tiktok-deal-framework-bessent\/\">had a \u201cframework\u201d<\/a> for an agreement on TikTok following trade talks with China. President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to speak Friday to complete the deal, Bessent said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The popular video-sharing platform has remained in limbo for months, as Trump has repeatedly delayed enforcement of a law requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to divest from the app or a face a ban on U.S. networks and app stores.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moolenaar said Wednesday that Congress enacted the law on an \u201coverwhelming bipartisan basis\u201d because of national security concerns about China\u2019s ability to collect American user data and potentially manipulate their feeds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers \u201cset clear legal safeguards for a deal,\u201d he noted, which barred cooperation with ByteDance on TikTok\u2019s algorithm or an ongoing operational relationship between the app and its parent company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on initial reports, I am concerned the reported licensing deal may involve ongoing reliance by the new TikTok on a ByteDance algorithm and application that could allow continued CCP control or influence,\u201d Moolenaar <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/committeeonccp\/status\/1968403879294345427\/photo\/1\">said in a statement<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to receiving full details on the deal and discussing these issues with the transaction parties to ensure any deal adheres to the law&#8217;s legal requirements,\u201d he continued.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The deputy head of China\u2019s cyber regulator has suggested that the TikTok deal includes \u201clicensing the algorithm and other intellectual property rights,\u201d according to the Financial Times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Specific details about the deal have yet to be disclosed, although several outlets have reported that Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of a group of investors poised to own a new U.S. entity that would operate TikTok.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, raised concerns Wednesday ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}