>>28916
Hmmmmm yeah I was actually going to make a thread about the tik tok thing today, but I guess you beat me to it.

>>28917
Here's more info on the recent purchase.

TikTok announced on Thursday that it had closed a deal that will establish a joint venture for parts of its US business with a group of investors.

Three managing investors will each hold a 15% stake in the new venture: (((Oracle))), private equity firm Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based investment firm MGX.

ByteDance, TikTok's owner, will maintain a 19.9% minority stake — the maximum allowed by the divest-or-ban law that spurred TikTok's sale. The remaining 35.1% will be controlled by a consortium of investors, including affiliates of some existing ByteDance investors.

>>28918
Some individuals are also getting a piece of TikTok US, including the family office of (((Michael Dell))), the founder of (((Dell Technologies))).

The new TikTok US joint venture said it's appointing a seven-person board of directors, which will include TikTok CEO Shou Chew, as well as representatives from investors like Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX.

Meanwhile, Adam Presser, a TikTok trust and safety executive, will act as CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC.

While the company did not provide a valuation for the joint venture in its announcement, the Trump administration said in September that the entity was worth around $14 billion.

The goal for the new joint venture is to secure US user data, trust and safety, and content moderation.

>>28919
Kenneth Glueck, an EVP at Oracle who advises the company's CEO, will join the board of directors.

Prior to the joint venture deal, Oracle was already working closely with TikTok's US Data Security division (USDS). The company has stored US TikTok users' data for years.

(((Larry Ellison))), who is also a financial participant in a bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery's business, is the chairman and cofounder of Oracle and a longtime Trump ally.

Oracle, which currently works with TikTok on data security, is expected to remain its "trusted security partner" tasked with safeguarding "sensitive US user data," Chew wrote in a December memo to staffers.

TikTok's new US owners will retrain the content recommendation algorithm on US user data "to ensure the content feed is free from outside manipulation," per the December memo.

Oracle did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

>>28920
On Thursday, January 22, 2026, TikTok announced that the TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC had officially been established to comply with President Trump’s executive order that approved the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations to an American investor group. Now, ByteDance will own less than 20% of the new entity, with the rest of it falling into non-Chinese ownership.

It's a real fucking mess. Maybe it's on purpose though.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/heres-whats-you-should-know-about-the-us-tiktok-deal/

>>28921
TL;DR: More cringe incoming for Tikki tik tok soon

I didn't really like that platform because it's too normie friendly though. I can imagine (((they))) and their friends will make it a lot worse soon.


Link to some articles related to the merger

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-could-take-over-tiktok-us-business-investors-oracle-ellison-2025-9

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/heres-whats-you-should-know-about-the-us-tiktok-deal/

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/announcement-from-the-new-tiktok-usds-joint-venture-llc?lang=en

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/18/nx-s1-5648844/tiktok-deal-oracle-trump

>>28922
You can no longer say "epstein" on tiktok.

I'm not making this up. This is a real thing.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689104/tiktok-epstein-direct-messages

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/tiktok-investigates-blocking-of-epstein-and-anti-trump-videos-amid-censorship-allegations

The tiktok purchase is off to a great start.

>>28923
Nobody cares, faggotish pederast

>>28925
Shut the fuck up and stop projecting. Just because you're a faggot boy lover doesn't make everyone else that. Spain anon's good people.

Everyone loves to censor until themselves get censored.
Everyone loves free speech as long as the speech that free is theirs.