US lawmakers say TikTok joint venture deal needs scrutiny from Congress

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6. Look at who the new owners are:

"[T]here is now concern that the app’s recommendations could take a right-leaning slant under US control.

"'Trump has already said that he’d like to see TikTok go "100 percent MAGA," and his allies will now be in charge of 'deciding which posts to leave up and which to take down,' the NYT noted. Anupam Chander, a law and technology professor at Georgetown University, told the NYT that the TikTok deal offered Trump and his allies 'more theoretical room for one side’s views to get a greater airing.'

"'My worry all along is that we may have traded fears of foreign propaganda for the reality of domestic propaganda,' Chander said.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/tiktok-finalizes-trump-deal-that-allows-bytedance-to-maintain-some-control/