Oracle Wins TikTok Deal, Beats Microsoft

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Oracle Wins TikTok Deal, Beats Microsoft
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• Oracle Corp. has edged out rival Microsoft Corp.
  in negotiations over the U.S. operations of
  TikTok. Oracle, one of Donald Trumps favorite
  companies, won the competition after ByteDance,
  TikTok's Chinese owner, rejected the rival bid of
  Microsoft.

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• Now comes the interesting part. The Trump
  administration can still reject ByteDance's
  proposed deal. This would mean TikTok will get
  shut down and ByteDance will get nothing.

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• In a statement, Microsoft said we would have made
  significant changes to ensure the service met the
  highest standards for security, privacy, online
  safety, and combating misinformation.The company
  added we look forward to seeing how the service
  evolves in these important areas.

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• All in all, Microsoft gave a message to everyone
  that we wanted to change TikTok to actually make
  it safe and ByteDance said no.

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• The trusted partner status of Oracle could mean
  some code audits but it will be hard to stop
  ByteDance from smuggling in some tracking malware
  if it wants to as long as Oracle isnt writing
  the code. Now comes the problem - Oracle wont be
  handling moderation or rewriting the TikTok
  algorithm. This means that anyone who has any
  concerns about TikTok before should not be less
  concerned now.

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