I used to be neutral on the ban until I read about their politically-motivated content moderation and how they push certain narrative into people’s feeds.
None of them have been as aggressive as TikTok. Most US social media companies have failed to curtail right wing bigots but that a separate conversation from TikTok tbh
Sources “with direct knowledge” of the project—granted anonymity because they’re not authorized to discuss it publicly—told Reuters that the TikTok effort began late last year.
They said that the project will likely take a year to complete, requiring hundreds of engineers to separate millions of lines of code.
“The Reuters story published today is misleading and factually inaccurate,” the TikTok Policy account posted on X (formerly Twitter).
"As we said in our court filing, the ‘qualified divestiture’ demanded by the Act to allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally.
However, in the meantime, sources told Reuters that TikTok is seemingly exploring all its options to avoid running afoul of the US law, including separating its code base and even once considering open-sourcing parts of its algorithm to increase transparency.
“Compliance and legal issues involved with determining what parts of the code can be carried over to TikTok are complicating the work,” one source told Reuters.
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