The battle over TikTok in the U.S. has lasted as long as the globally popular app has been available. Since 2019, TikTok has negotiated with the federal government to address concerns of Chinese manipulation and data theft. President Donald Trump was initially for a ban, then against it and then for it again. Through it all, TikTok remained one of the only major social platforms that Silicon Valley, with its growing right-wing tilt, hasn’t completely absorbed. More than a social media platform, TikTok has grown into one of the country’s largest consumer apps. For months, the Trump administration ignored a 2024 law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court banning the app unless the Chinese company ByteDance sold off its majority ownership. Oracle one of the world’s largest cloud computing firms, which already hosts all of TikTok’s U.S. data, is set to build a $20 billion data center in the United Arab Emirates and will be responsible for the app’s famous algorithm. Do you think that United States are afraid of China being too smart ?
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