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,

CNN CEO Mark Thompson, reflecting on the past two years of work to innovate in the age of short-form consumption and rising political tensions, — not to mention AI — says that the future looks bright so long as innovation hits its full potential.

That detail had been one of the big outstanding questions as the White House pushes ahead to finalize the TikTok deal. If completed, the deal will transfer control of TikTok's U.S. operations to a new joint venture based in the U.

TikTok's algorithm is the "secret sauce" behind the app's success, experts say. U.S.-China talks over the app's ownership must resolve who controls the technology.

CNN’s Dana Bash urges Americans to think about how social media algorithms are pulling them “deeper and deeper into our own information loops and political ecosystems.”

Tech giant Oracle will spearhead U.S. oversight of the algorithm and security underlying TikTok's video popular platform under the terms of a deal laid out Monday by President Donald Trump's administration.