President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 19, 2025, a preliminary agreement for the sale of a majority stake in TikTok from Chinese tech giant ByteDance to a group of U.S. investors following Trump’s ...

A secret project from TikTok was recently leaked. It focuses on developing a "US copy" of the ByteDance Chinese company's original algorithm for its app. The algorithm clone is a way to appease US ...

The risks have less to do with who owns the app than who writes the code and algorithms that make TikTok tick. By David E. Sanger Reporting from Washington In a capital where Republicans and Democrats ...

Some dating app users say manipulative algorithms suppress the good matches. When tech companies run romance, the truth is hard to grasp. Reading time 12 minutes Last year, a friend came to me with a ...

Under a draft agreement between ByteDance and CFIUS, Oracle would be TikTok’s partner — and a government proctor. But stuck in limbo, the companies’ relationship has soured. There is an area within ...

The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kelley Cotter, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump announced on Sept.

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

(THE CONVERSATION) Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. President Donald Trump announced a ...