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Trump’s friends controlling TikTok is maybe bad news for the US and US democracy? 🤔
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The deal to secure TikTok’s future in the US has finally closed
The joint venture acquiring TikTok’s US assets has been formally established and has announced its leadership team, according to the company, one day before the deadline set by President Donald Trump for the app’s US assets to be spun off by Chinese parent company ByteDance.

Email: TikTok is casting actors for its own short-drama production; the company filed a US trademark application for the term "TikTok Drama" in November 2025 (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-casting-actors-…

TikTok is casting actors to make its own micro dramas as it jumps headfirst into the hot format
TikTok has begun casting actors for its own mini-drama series. It also filed a trademark for "TikTok Drama."

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Chew hailed the establishment of the TikTok USDS JV as "great news", and said the app is used by 200M US users and 7.5M US businesses (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/read-tiktok-ceo-memo-cl…

Read the memo TikTok's CEO sent staff after closing a deal to avoid a US ban
TikTok CEO Shou Chew sent a memo to staff celebrating the "good news" that the company had finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US.

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

Seen on Tiktok:
Bringing American Culture to Greenland 🇬🇱
#greenland #fentanyl

"Was zunächst wie ein primär ökonomischer Akt wirkt, ist viel mehr ein weiterer Schlag gegen den Meinungspluralismus in einem Land, das sich selbst zwar als „Land of the free“ bezeichnet, in der politischen Einflussnahme durch die Trump-Regierung aber immer mehr hinter autokratische Strukturen zurückzutreten droht.
Denn nun gerät ein weiteres digitales Netzwerk unter Kontrolle regierungsnaher Multimilliardäre."

Freitag: Intel wieder in den roten Zahlen, Verkauf von TikTok USA wohl genehmigt
Intel-Aktie unter Druck Closing von TikTok-Verkauf Tesla-Robotaxis autonom in Texas Investoren für Kernfusion-Start-up Podcast zu Datenschutz am Gericht

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Chew hailed the establishment of the TikTok USDS JV as "great news", and said the app is used by 200M US users and 7.5M US businesses (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/read-tiktok-ceo-memo-cl…

Read the memo TikTok's CEO sent staff after closing a deal to avoid a US ban
TikTok CEO Shou Chew sent a memo to staff celebrating the "good news" that the company had finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US.

Tests show GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT citing Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan…

TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.