August 14, 2020 - President Trump orders ByteDance to divest its interest in TikTok's U.S. operations within 90 days.4, 2020 - ByteDance picks Oracle over Microsoft as its partner in a bid to keep TikTok operating in the United States.

China says the U.S. spinoff of TikTok will use ByteDance’s Chinese algorithm and that the U.S.-agreed framework includes “licensing the algorithm