U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he was “very happy” to have helped save the social network TikTok, following the agreement reached yesterday between its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and several U.S. companies to which it has been sold.
“I am so happy to have helped save TikTok! It will now be owned by a group of great American patriots and investors, the largest in the world, and will be an important voice,” Trump said in a message on his Social Truth network.
Trump saves TikTok and celebrates that it is already of “great patriots”.
The new owners of the popular network, including Oracle, MGX, Silver Lake and Michael Dell’s entity, will control more than 80% of the new entity, ensuring the continuity of the application in the United States, according to the parent.
Since 2019, TikTok faced blocking attempts by lawmakers, universities, the military and the White House amid technological and trade tension between the U.S. and China. The app had faced threats of a ban and a 14-hour temporary blackout.
Trump now claims that this social network “among other factors, was responsible for my success with the youth vote in the 2024 presidential election.”
And that he only hopes that “in the future those who use and love TikTok will remember me”. He also thanked the members of his administration for their help in reaching this agreement.
“I would also like to thank President Xi of China for working with us and ultimately approving the agreement. He could have made the opposite decision, but he did not, and his decision is appreciated,” the U.S. president concluded.
The short-form video social network promised Friday that the new joint venture it has established in the United States to avoid being banned in the country “will operate under defined safeguards that will protect national security.”
These mechanisms include “comprehensive data protections, algorithm security, content moderation and software safeguards for users in the U.S.,” the company said in a statement.
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With information from EFE
