What TikTok's new owners mean for your feed
The Verge·2026-01-23 23:30
Will Tik Tok's new owners in the US mess with your feeds. Here's what you need to know. On January 22nd, Tik Tok's deal to split off its US operations closed, giving the cloud giant Oracle and a group of investment firms a chunk of the video sharing platform.Bite Dance, Tik Tok's China based parent company, still has a 19.9% stake, satisfying the federal Tik Tok ban law that went into effect last year. So, how might this affect your feed. For one, the new Tik Tok US will retrain, test, and update its algori ...