An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the agreement,

In the United States, TikTok will be operated by a board of directors with national security and cybersecurity credentials, one of the senior officials said. ByteDance will choose one director on the seven-member board, and that person will be excluded from TikTok’s security committee.

Framework deal between U.S and China may let TikTok still use ByteDance’s algorithm under license while shifting U.S operations toward American control.

If China sells TikTok to a U.S. buyer without its algorithm, users will notice a difference in functionality, experts say.

TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its 170 million U.S. users that may result in a version that operates independently of its Chinese parent and be more palatable to American lawmakers who want to ban it, according to sources ...

Switch on your streaming service of choice or open the website for your preferred department store and a recommendation system is sure to kick in. “You liked this TV series, so we think you’ll like this one!” Or: “As you’re looking at a pink ...

TikTok has reached a preliminary deal to sell its U.S. operations to an American-based investor group, the White House said.