As well as an organizational restructure, TikTok promised measures to ensure oversight of its content and the functionality of its algorithm. Since last summer, TikTok has teamed up with US-based software company Oracle to reroute all traffic data through the latter’s servers. TikTok has faced years of criticism for potentially exposing the data of US users to China, where parent company ByteDance is based. The move aims to ease the skepticism of US lawmakers, who have repeatedly called on the government to crack down on the social media company. On Friday, Kentucky became the latest US state to ban the popular video app on state government devices, citing cybersecurity concerns.

Source: CNN January 16, 2023 16:41 UTC