Trump monta equipe de elite com Ellison, Dell e Murdochs para aquisição americana do TikTok

O ex-presidente Trump reuniu um dream team bilionário para assumir o controle do TikTok nos EUA - Larry Ellison da Oracle, Michael Dell da Dell Technologies e os irmãos Murdoch do império Fox-News Corp.

Gigantes da tecnologia e mídia unem forças

Ellison traz a infraestrutura em nuvem, Dell aporta o hardware empresarial e os Murdoch contribuem com o poder de fogo midiático. Uma combinação que mistura soberania de dados com influência política - porque nada diz 'livre mercado' como uma aquisição forçada pelo governo.

Operação estratégica em meio à guerra tecnológica

A movimentação ocorre enquanto EUA e China travam batalha pelo domínio da tecnologia global. Trump claramente prefere que os dados dos americanos fiquem com bilionários locais rather than com o Partido Comunista Chinês.

Porque quando se trata de vigilância digital, é melhor confiar em capitalistas que pelo menos pagam impostos - ou os sonegam criativamente como qualquer bom magnata faria.

China’s ByteDance will get 1 of 7 board seats for TikTok’s U.S. operations, official says

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Saturday that the restructured TikTok entity will feature seven board members, and 6 of the board members will be American. That setup reflects the requirements of a Congress bill in April 2024 that called for a national ban on TikTok in the US unless 80% of the app’s assets were sold to investors in America.

Leavitt also said that privacy and data for U.S. users will be led by Oracle and that Oracle invest in the platform. Ellison’s company started hosting TikTok’s U.S. data in 2020, an arrangement that has been central to the government’s data security aims for the platform.

This week’s movement marked a rare step forward after months of talks between the United States and China aimed at easing friction over trade and technology, which has weighed on markets.

Trump said Friday that he and Xi moved forward towards agreement on TikTok during their call and planned to meet in person in six weeks, though Beijing’s public statements have not made clear how far the talks have advanced.

It is not yet clear whether the arrangement under discussion will satisfy Congress’s requirement for a complete separation under the 2024 law. Questions remain over how control of the algorithm will be handled and how the new board’s authority will be defined within the U.S. structure.

Trump has given TikTok a lot of credit for helping him win last year’s election. On his personal account, the president has over 15 million followers. Last month, the White House also created an account on TikTok, highlighting the platform’s reach even as officials push for changes in its ownership.

Under the agreement described by the White House official, all data on American users would be stored on U.S. cloud infrastructure run by Oracle. That matches the hosting setup that began in 2020 and would continue if the ownership plan goes ahead. Negotiators are racing against the mid-December pause and the January 2025 deadline set by law.

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