On Monday, a White House official stated that the work of Tik Tok recommendation system will be audited by the tech giant Oracle, and will be run by a new joint venture with US investors to comply with the needs of app sale.
It follows after President Donald Trump stated that an agreement to avoid banning the app in the United States, unless sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance, had been found with the consent of the Chinese.
BBC has sought a response with ByteDance and Tik Tok.
According to white house officials, the deal will be a win to the US users and citizens of the app.
Later this week, President Trump is set to sign an executive order on the proposed deal, which will provide the manner in which it will act in accordance with the US national security requirements.
The order will also define a 120 days withdrawal of the deadline of enforcement to enable the deal to be closed.
It is not clear that the Chinese government has ratified this agreement, or even started making regulatory measures needed to bring it.
Nonetheless, the White House seems to be satisfied that it has won the endorsement of China.
The information of the 170m users that Tik Tok claims to have in the US is already stored on Oracle servers, in a current agreement dubbed Project Texas.
It experienced US user information leakage as it was believed that it might end up in the hands of the Chinese government.
Upon the deal of President Trump, according to a senior White House official, the company would assume a complete role of securing the entirety of the app to American users.
They said this would involve auditing and inspection of the source code and recommendation system, which the app is based on, and re-building it based on only US user data.
Patriotic investors
Oracle, the cloud computing company that serves increasingly more companies, such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has been long speculated to have a part in the President Trump deal.
It has lately announced that it has gotten numerous orders among AI firms to its data centres, which contributed to its stock skyrocketing in worth and even had its co-founder and chairman, Larry Ellison, the wealthiest individual on the planet briefly.
In the first part of this year, President Trump indicated that he would prefer to have Mr Ellison acquire Tik Tok.
Silver Lake, a private equity firm that owns businesses including the owners of Manchester City football club, the City Football Group, was also identified to be a part of the deal.
According to the White House officials, the new joint venture that governs the app would be pursuing patriotic investors and board members with experience in the field of cybersecurity to manage its activities.
They feel that the worth of the transaction would probably be in billions of dollars.
However, Jasmine Enberg, the principal social media analyst at eMarketer, claimed that modifications to how TikTok functions among the US consumers might jeopardize putting them off the app or perhaps diminishing the worth of the app to creators, brands and investors.
She informed the BBC News that even perceived or material changes in the content, app policies, or algorithms would initiate enormous changes in how users behave.
Although the specifics of the agreement remain uncertain, in case an algorithm designed specifically to target the US cuts off US TikTok users to content in the rest of the world, it will undermine the user experience.
