UPDATE 1/20: TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER: SELL TIKTOK TO US OR WE'RE TARIFFING CHINA. You have 75 days!!!!

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@kyle_ferriter
Trump illegally refused to enforce the TikTok ban and instead secured a deal where his conservative billionaire friends Ellison, Murdoch, Dell, and Andreessen took over its US presence. Why didn't US companies make a competing app? There must be a ton of money in that, right?

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Trump on the TikTok deal: "A man named Lachlan is involved. Lachlan Murdoch ... Rupert is probably gonna be in the group."


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@Phil_Lewis_
Trump has mentioned that billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Michael Dell could be part of deal in which the U.S. will take control of TikTok Trump Reveals Murdochs And Dell Could Potentially Take Part In TikTok Deal



2/23
@chiefflips
about to see propaganda commercials every other tiktok



3/23
@SirEddieC
y’all enjoy that lmao



4/23
@MidnightMonaye
Just get rid of it



5/23
@Damilare707
@grok summarize it



6/23
@archontici

7/23
@Tacia
Unfreaking real.
The world has gone to hell and we follow along. Willingly.



8/23
@JAMnit_JAM
Lemme just say fukk Rupert Murdoch.

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Literally think about any issue in the past two decades and tell me how Rupert Murdoch isn't at least partially responsible for it


9/23
@bettawerkbish
Creators better get a back up plan to make money cause I’m telling you that ish about to be gone.



10/23
@solidadvice1981
Murdoch who trump is suing over the Epstein birthday book? Damn these people are corrupt.



11/23
@304TheRevTJ
I love you Phil. Hope you had a great Sunday 🩵



12/23
@SimiraNB
Yuuuck



13/23
@Sadchicknwing
This takeover will be the downfall, people don't know that also without that Chinese algorithm, it will not be the same.



14/23
@TacoWeedBoobs
RIP TikTok



15/23
@_kingofthetake
My money is on this deal doesn’t go through lol



16/23
@girl75219
Trump wants in on that deal no doubt.



17/23
@kindred1999
After what happened in January, everyone but esp creators should be looking to land elsewhere.

All apps have thier drawbacks but TT bought to you by Fox News? This ain't it at all.



18/23
@michfinneran
On the up side, everything trump touches dies……



19/23
@TotalDepravity0
Biden fukked this up by passing Tiktok’s future off to Trump. Completely unforced error that will have generational consequences.

All major social media platforms will boost & incentivize MAGA propaganda now.



20/23
@OHSportsGirl
So the plan is to take TikTok from China and hand our data over to some of the biggest villains of our lifetime

The Trump Administration is Billionaires helping billionaires obtain more money & power



21/23
@JustbeReal7
He sued Rupert a month ago.

You can’t make this shjt up if you wanted to.



22/23
@MusiqIsEndless
At this point, we need a new app by next year because the midterms in 2026 and the general election in 2028 are gonna be republican and far right propaganda



23/23
@The_HistOracle
So that tough talk against Rupert is just a con as Trump negotiates big deals with him.




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Trump signs executive order facilitating TikTok deal

The president signed the order Thursday after the administration had signaled that a deal was being finalized between Chinese and U.S. officials.

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Trump signs executive order facilitating TikTok deal​

The president signed the order Thursday after the administration had signaled that a deal was being finalized between Chinese and U.S. officials.

Trump signs executive order paving the way for TikTok deal with China

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Sept. 25, 2025, 4:42 PM EDT / Updated Sept. 26, 2025, 4:11 AM EDT

By Angela Yang and Savannah Sellers

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday paving the way for a TikTok deal that could transfer majority ownership of the app to Americans.

While it appears the terms of the agreement are set, it is likely to take more time for the sides to close the deal as they hammer out finer legal and financial points.

“This is going to be American-operated all the way,” Trump said during the signing on Thursday. “I have great respect for President Xi, and I very much appreciate that he approved the deal, because to get it done properly, we really needed the support of China and the approval of China.”

Under the new framework agreement outlined in the executive order, TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance and its affiliates will own less than 20% of TikTok, while “certain investors” will retain 80% ownership. The plan would achieve the “qualified divestiture” required for TikTok to comply with federal law, according to the order.

It is not clear who all the parties to the deal are, but Trump said during the signing that Oracle and its co-founder Larry Ellison will play a “big” role. He added that tech entrepreneur Michael Dell and media mogul Rupert Murdoch will also be involved. Vice President JD Vance said more information will be revealed in the coming weeks.

Trump told reporters last week that the investors are “all very well-known people, very famous people actually, financially.”

The deal will allow for these American investors to control the app’s algorithm, Vance said. TikTok’s unique algorithm, which curates the type of content users see in their feeds, made the app’s For You page famous for its engagement-driven personalization that democratized virality and transformed online culture.

When asked whether he wants to see the new algorithm suggest more MAGA content, Trump told reporters, “I always like MAGA-related.”

“If I could make it 100% MAGA, I would, but it’s not going to work out that way, unfortunately,” Trump said. “No, everyone’s going to be treated fairly. Every group, every philosophy, every policy will be treated very fairly.”

TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the deal.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Friday that the Chinese government “respects the wishes of the company and is pleased to see the company conduct commercial negotiations and reach a solution that complies with Chinese laws and regulations and balances interests, all while adhering to market rules.”

“China hopes the U.S. will provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies investing in the United States,” ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a regular news briefing in Beijing.

The deal comes after years of criticism of the social media platform from politicians and security professionals, who have expressed concern over its Chinese ownership. In May, TikTok was fined €530 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner for concerns over how it protects user information.

The app’s future had been in limbo ever since President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill last year that required ByteDance to sell the platform to an American company or face a ban, citing national security concerns. The law, which was also upheld by the Supreme Court, was supposed to take effect on Jan. 19 this year.

But aside from the app briefly going dark in the hours before Trump’s second inauguration, TikTok has continued to operate in the U.S. as Trump used executive orders to repeatedly delay the ban. Earlier this month, the president extended TikTok’s shutdown deadline for a fourth time, giving it until Dec. 16 to complete the framework of a long-awaited deal between Washington and Beijing.

Thursday’s executive order extended the ban’s non-enforcement to 120 days, or until Jan. 23, in order to give the divestiture time to be completed.

In past years, efforts to ban TikTok, which is estimated to have around 170 million active users in the U.S., had come from both sides of the political aisle. U.S. officials questioned the company over whether ByteDance could share user data with the Chinese government, as well as whether China could use the platform’s algorithm to manipulate public opinion.

But by the time the ban was slated to finally kick in, many of those same lawmakers had changed their tune following popular discontent over the looming loss of the app. In January, the Biden White House said that it would pass responsibility for enforcing the ban to Trump’s incoming administration, and congressional leaders who had once championed the ban seemed to shy away from enforcement as well.

Trump himself has also flip-flopped on his attitude toward TikTok. In 2020, during his first term, he signed an executive order to effectively ban the app. (The order was later halted in court.) By 2024, however, he openly voiced his opposition to a TikTok ban and joined the platform himself in an attempt to reach young voters, even publishing a video promising to “save TikTok.”

On Thursday, Trump also acknowledged TikTok’s importance to the many businesses that rely on the app to advertise their products and services. He said part of why he “wanted to do the deal so badly” was because of the influx of calls he received from small business owners over the last six months.

“Small businesses have become very successful because of TikTok, and we didn’t think of that,” he said.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Damn you can't use nothing in this country

 

[Json]

Apparently Oracle was already handling backend stuff on the American side but now they own a version of the algorithm but we will see how it performs without the old one.

 

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[Conservative Cringe] Netanyahu: "Weapons change over time... the most important ones are the social media," he said. "The most important purchase that is going on right now is TikTok... I hope it goes through because it can be consequential."

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Forbes (@forbes.com)

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge...

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forbes.com
An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.

The Humble Origins Of TikTok’s Almighty Algorithm

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gigharborlola.bsky.social
I deleted my account because with the takeover, the algorithm will be nothing but right wing, religious right bullshyt.

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imlunahey.com
well you're smart...

https://www.reuters.com/world/china...p-with-its-own-algorithm-user-data-2025-07-09

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‪@imlunahey.com‬
IT'S A SEPARATE fukkING APP.

tiktok was not and never will be sold. i swear it's really not that hard to read.

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douglasgreen43.bsky.social
All of these stupid apps don't last in user base and popularity. In two years there will be some other mind-numbing app people will sweat over.

5/45
lmnopdeux.bsky.social
Haven’t used this app since January 19, 2025.

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covid-worrier.bsky.social
The algorithm is nothing special. The secret sauce was the easy-to-use in-app video editor , especially high quality auto caption . That’s what the other platforms lack

7/45
covid-worrier.bsky.social
Oh, and the music license also essential; remember how lame it was when some songs disappeared for a week?

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carolinecaroline.bsky.social
Wow. Who would think a guy named Jorge could write an algorithm?!?!

9/45
gingerkap23.bsky.social
Yeah I don’t really understand this headline…

10/45
adlusk.bsky.social
It's trash and I'm starting to think so is Forbes.

They're trying to make tik tok sound like it's innocent and definitely doesn't spy on anybody that has it installed...

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bennevis.bsky.social
The Humble Origins Of Trump's timely TikTok makeover

@robertinlakesh

www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-censo...

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dashcatphotography.bsky.social
I am so glad I don’t ’TikTok’ Any 20-something creator will have one or two thoughts rattling around in their to tiny little minds.

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adamacote.bsky.social
Fu— tik tok

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loudthorpe.bsky.social
Philosophy is the only good recommendation -anything to do with the human should is untouchable.

surftofind.com/soul/

15/45
dianedarrow.bsky.social
Delete til tok. Cancel all subscriptions and turn off the damn TV

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mrdavidmonaghan.bsky.social
Isnt TikTok about to be taken over as an Israeli propaganda tool by Zionist Larry Ellison? Larry’s a great friend of Trumps too I’m told.

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kimberlion.bsky.social
And Israel.

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mastershadowlinx.bsky.social
ah yes Jorge

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doctorsynth.bsky.social
Watch over the next 90 days as Larry Ellison enshytifies TikTok, making it unusable.

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blacksilverfire.bsky.social
Which confuses me as to how there isn't another app kinda like TikTok out there already. Especially if it's available on all mobile devices and just shows the world. Not curated propaganda or censorship of free speech .

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evphoto.bsky.social
That algorithm will change soon. Get ready for nothing but Zionist and MAGA AI slop.

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imlunahey.com
you can really tell the commenters have no clue what they're on about..

https://www.reuters.com/world/china...p-with-its-own-algorithm-user-data-2025-07-09

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‪@imlunahey.com‬
IT'S A SEPARATE fukkING APP.

tiktok was not and never will be sold. i swear it's really not that hard to read.

23/45
pamballard3.bsky.social
but what happens to it if Fox takes it over????

24/45
adlusk.bsky.social
Nothing. That's not what's happening. Somebody in this thread keeps trying to tell everybody, too.

It's not the same app. They are making a copy of it. The copy will be what you download in the US and the rest of the world will keep the other.

So you WILL be spied on is what I'm saying.

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1doglove.bsky.social
As soon as an tick tock changes ownership, I’m closing my account and moving to something else,because it will go to just like twitter did !
#resist
Bluesky

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yogahainen.bsky.social

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gigibu.bsky.social
Do we have another platform yet??

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multithinker.bsky.social
They sell us a fairytale of “ordinary curators,” but TikTok’s algorithm was never humble—it was engineered to addict, divide & manipulate. The real code isn’t creativity, it’s control. #AlgorithmWars #CancelTikTok #DigitalSlavery
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Bluesky

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amberjackson9939.bsky.social


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devrial.bsky.social
She wants what Vine had

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eyesofpercept.bsky.social
It sucks actually

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mop-fautneddy.bsky.social
Unroll it.

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kestrel61.bsky.social
I’m leaving. Never used it much anyway. Just got it to follow my daughter and even she abandoned it.

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robertjeff57-58.bsky.social


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victorytwin.bsky.social
Now to get them off the digital delusions and touch grass to stay human ….is the real challenge

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butterfly-palm.bsky.social
You have to be greedy or insane to be on TikTok. And have it recommended to you? I don't even let YouTube recommend to me. With it's pro Trump bothism bull*hit

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debryberg.bsky.social
Trump likes it, wants it, made a ‘deal’ to keep it, .

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djg7715.bsky.social
I built up 2 accounts only to be permanently deleated for posting in opposition of the fascist administration currently in the white house TIK TOK IS DELETED PERMANENTLY Its bowed down to the fascist dictator

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meltedplasticman.bsky.social
White washing, Chinese data collection a capitalist form of spying.

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gigibu.bsky.social
What?

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meltedplasticman.bsky.social
Critics cite Chinese intelligence laws, which could compel a Chinese-based company like ByteDance to turn over user data to the Chinese government if requested. In 2022, the FBI’s Christopher Wray testified that this legal framework was a national security concern

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apollofm.bsky.social
Some info you all might want to watch about the al gore rhythm
allot to take in and to think about and the power the new TikTok OWNERS Will Have Over You and Your Choices about what you view
hey whats up Doc rabbit holes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfcz...

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traderss.bsky.social
Voting TRUMP is a symptom of chronic Tylenol autism.

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bradleymoore.bsky.social
Tik Tok was loaded cram full with trashy overweight girls from the South selling false eyelashes, or giving advice about which Spandex pants to buy, or telling everyone they were single (and then endlessly bytching about their last boy friend, which made sense why they were single)
And cat videos

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summergirl505.bsky.social
Your algorithm is specific to you. If that's what you saw, that's what you liked. Mine is all academic progressives, feminist theory and dogs.

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Joshua Holland (@joshuaholland.bsky.social)

A MAGA nutjob owns CNN and CBS and is getting control of TikTok. Twitter and Facebook are controlled by wingnuts, as are the WaPo and LAT and a majority of local tv and radio stations. And yet this reality rarely comes up in discussions of the Dems’ messaging problems or lack of popularity.

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joshuaholland.bsky.social
A MAGA nutjob owns CNN and CBS and is getting control of TikTok. Twitter and Facebook are controlled by wingnuts, as are the WaPo and LAT and a majority of local tv and radio stations. And yet this reality rarely comes up in discussions of the Dems’ messaging problems or lack of popularity.

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joshuaholland.bsky.social
This is the best argument for doomerism, btw

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joshuaholland.bsky.social
All of which puts this into perspective—>

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The RW press started that liberal echo chamber nonsense, got the legacy media to run with it as they always do and it absolutely killed Blue Sky’s momentum.

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joshuaholland.bsky.social

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/tech/youtube-reinstate-banned-accounts-covid-19-2020-election

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clivingsbkk.bsky.social
I've been screaming about Sinclair and right wing media ownership concentration, especially of radio stations in the Midwest, since 2015. People just look at me like I'm speaking an ancient dialect of some kind.

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gpolisner.bsky.social
It comes up in many of my articles -and has been known at times to get up to 50 views!

open.substack.com/pub/bomdia/p...

The Media Pipeline

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the-barely-jew.bsky.social
It's still referred to as the "liberal media" by almost everyone

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newblue25.bsky.social
How can we have our own safe place?
Suggestions?

ps. I got baby ginger yesterday at my csa

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joshuaholland.bsky.social
It pickles really well.

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newblue25.bsky.social
I only have two small nubs.

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Justin Of Brooklyn🇰🇳🇵🇸 (@neohxc.bsky.social)

Tik Tok Zionist deal/ algorithm finalized.

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neohxc.bsky.social
Tik Tok Zionist deal/ algorithm finalized.
https://video.bsky.app/watch/did:pl...bvdb53fzyjs7y6cp7wqfoincldidfbm/playlist.m3u8

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