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The social media platform TikTok has finalized a deal to allow it to continue to operate in the United States.
For the past year,
TikTok's been at the heart of a dispute between its Chinese owner ByteDance and the US government over data privacy.
Under the deal, in the United States,
TikTok's famous algorithm will only be trained on US user data.
The BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman told me more.
This has taken such a long time hasn't it to come together.
President Donald Trump has posted on social media that he's saved TikTok but actually it was him who put TikTok into jeopardy in the first place back in 2020 when he suggested banning it and
since then there's been repeated deadlines and extensions that have come and gone and as there were I'm guessing quite tense negotiations with TikTok's owner ByteDance over whether or not it was prepared to sell its sort of golden goose,
if you like, you know, TikTok in the US, which is owned, which is used by 200 million Americans.
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