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The representative of the House of Representatives calls for a speedy White House to the Tiktok deal
Written by Didi Tang, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee, which prompted the law claimed by Tiktok from its Chinese owners, asked an urgent briefing from the White House, one day after Trump signed an executive order Support a proposed deal This would put the famous social video platform under the ownership of the United States.
In a statement issued on Friday, Representative John Molinaar, head of the chosen committee of the Chinese Communist Party, praised the proposed deal as an “important step” in transferring the ownership of the Tiktok platform to the American hands, but stressed that “getting rid of investments was not the only requirement of the law.”
“The law also put a fixed handrail that prohibits cooperation between the Bytedance and the potential successor of the important recommendation algorithm, as well as preventing operational relations between the new entity and bytedance,” said Molinaar.
Michigan’s Republican statement coincides with the first effort of Congress to conduct supervision of negotiations on Tijook, after nearly two weeks of Chinese and American officials. He met in Spain To discuss the deal to get rid of the frame for Tikhak. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order to support the deal, and said that Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to move forward with negotiations.
The White House did not immediately respond to an investigation from the Associated Press in relation to urgent briefing.
It is more than the algorithm
a lot It is still unknown About the actual deal in business, but the new American project will license the famous housing -owned algorithm that keeps Tiktok users currently famous. The American technology giant Oracle, a confirmed partner in the American Investment Union that owns Tiktok, will review and monitor the algorithm for safety.
On Thursday, Vice Vice President JD Vance assured the public that the deal will not only keep Tiktok to work, but also protects the privacy of Americans’ data as required by law. Molinaar said on Friday he would like to know more.
Although algorithms are valuable assets, the true value of Tiktok is its users, and this is more likely why the consortium will not start only from scratch to build a new application, as the computer world said Knijnenburg, associate professor at the University of Clemerson who studied how the recommendation systems directed to the online content.
Knijnenburg said that all algorithms are biased in some way, and if the administration is serious in re -training Tiktok algorithm to avoid Chinese influence, then you must pay for “radical openness” in Tiktok mechanics so that users have a window on how to prejudice their summaries.
More than politics, Knijnenburg said that the biggest problem in Tiktok algorithm is that it is directed towards participation and excessive use.
“The transfer of it to the United States will not solve these types of problems in a magically.” “Any company may put an unjustified impact on these applications and from the work perspective, the best way to involve users is to make it addicted to watching these videos, and it is not a good idea.”
Representation by the new project
Craig Sentelton, a Chinese colleague at the Tank Research Foundation in Washington to defend democracies, doubts that the deal, as revealed so far, is compatible with the law.
“The law is clear: it means getting rid of separation, not supervision.” “The seat of the country’s board of directors or any continuous role in preserving the algorithm would escape from the state of Congress.”
Although the details have not been completed, the share of the American Investment Group in the new project will be about 80 %. While BYDANCE is expected to have a stake in the new project, it will be less than 20 % – part of the property allocated to foreign investors. The council that runs the new platform will be controlled by American investors. Bytedance will be represented by one person on the board of directors, but this person will be excluded from any security related issues.
Syntonon argues that the foothold of the plate by bytedance is not just a symbol. He said: “The role of the reported by attedance as the largest contributor to the Tiktok Us project, which has been restructured, along with the seat of the board of directors, ensures the Chinese influence on the application.” “Clearly, the will on the plate Beijing means in the building.”
Is Tiktok less than its value in this deal?
Vans said he expected the value of the new Tiktok in the United States at about 14 billion dollars, describing it as a “good deal” for investors who must ultimately decide “what they want to invest in and what they think is the appropriate value.”
Daniel Kium, a professor of administration at the University of Colombia’s Business Administration, said it was an “amazingly low” assessment.
Kom said that it is possible that “policy exceeded the issue of work” or that the license structure, which has not yet been revealed, could have been designed with high fees or profit sharing that suffers from depression at the value of the TIKTOK application in the United States
Kom said that Tiktok had an early advantage in attracting young people to coordinate innovative video sharing, but its competitiveness was “eaten mainly” as social media facilities and increasingly influential their videos on many different applications.
With the rise in the popularity of Tijook among young American youth in the past few years, American lawmakers have arose that Beijing – which many have seen on Capitol Hill as the largest geopolitical competitor to the United States – can use the platform to influence the general risk in the United States.
Molinaar said in his statement. “For this reason, on the basis of a two -party steeped, Congress asked for innovation to strip the control of Tiktok.”
President Joe Biden signed legislation Congress approved by the Congress last year, which would prohibit Tijok unless the bytedance has its American assets to an American company by early this year. The US Supreme Court in January unanimously Take Tiktok Law.
After returning to the White House, Trump has repeatedly signed orders that allowed Tiktok to continue working in the United States, as he is trying to reach an agreement to sell the company.
On Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry did not provide any new information, but it repeated the position of China in Tiktok.
“The Chinese government respects the will of institutions and welcomes them by conducting sound trade negotiations based on the market rules, reaching solutions that are compatible with Chinese laws and regulations and achieving a balanced result of interests,” said Quh Jiakon, a spokesman for the ministry. “We hope that the United States will provide an open, fair and non -discriminatory business environment for Chinese institutions that invest in the United States.”
AP writer Matt O’Brien contributed to this report.
It was originally published:
Chair of a House committee on China demands urgent White House briefing on TikTok deal
