By Bobby Allyn
Publication Date: 2025-12-19 00:26:00
Offices of the TikTok company in Culver City, California, on September 30, 2025. On December 18, a contract was signed to sell the American part of the company to a group of US investors.
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TikTok has signed a deal to spin off its U.S. operations into a group controlled primarily by American investors, including software giant Oracle, a company run by a billionaire Trump ally Larry Ellison.
TikTok’s hyper-engaging algorithm and the vast amounts of data the app has collected on millions of Americans are set to be monitored by the new US company. Under the agreement, TikTok’s US…