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Retraining TikTok US Algorithm Not Enough If App Retains Characteristics, Experts Say

A 2021 rule by the Cyberspace Administration of China required recommendation algorithms to ‘promote core socialist values.’
Retraining TikTok US Algorithm Not Enough If App Retains Characteristics, Experts Say
A woman holds a phone displaying the TikTok app, in this file photo, on Aug. 11, 2024. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times
Catherine Yang
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When Trump administration officials announced that a TikTok U.S. deal was imminent, they stressed that the deal would bring the popular social media app’s algorithm completely under U.S. control.

“This is going to be American-operated all the way,” President Donald Trump said after signing the executive order to authorize a TikTok U.S. deal and give the parties 120 days to close it. 
Catherine Yang
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Catherine Yang has been with The Epoch Times in New York since 2008. She also launched and previously served as chief editor of American Essence magazine and Epoch Health.