By Reuters
Publication Date: 2026-05-29 14:47:00
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) – Democratic Senator Ed Markey on Friday asked a U.S. joint venture between TikTok and Oracle to answer questions about the security of the data of Americans using the short-video platform and efforts to prevent foreign manipulation of its content recommendation algorithm.
TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, struck a deal in January to form a majority American-owned joint venture that would secure U.S. data to avoid a U.S. ban on the short-video app used by over 200 million Americans.
Cloud computing giant Oracle is one of the three managing investors in TikTok USDS JV. In January, TikTok announced that it would retrain, test and update TikTok’s content recommendation algorithm using US user data and that the algorithm would be secured in Oracle’s US cloud.
(Reporting by David Shepardson)
