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TikTok’s Algorithms Complicate Potential Deal

By Alex Heath
· · Source: The Wall Street Journal

The origin of the algorithms that power TikTok have complicated a forced sale of the app’s U.S. business, according to The Wall Street Journal . TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, would presumably transfer said algorithms, which power the app’s endless feed of videos, to an American buyer. But last week the Chinese government added such software to a tech export list, meaning a sale to...

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