Overview

• Under project M2, TikTok staff are duplicating the platform’s codebase, AI models and user data into a separate U.S. system to meet compliance requirements.
• China has officially barred the export of TikTok’s recommendation algorithm, forcing a ground-up rebuild of the U.S. app’s core technology.
• President Trump has proposed a consortium led by Susquehanna International Group, General Atlantic and KKR to acquire the American operations, with investors such as Blackstone and Oracle also involved.
• U.S. legislation mandates that data from 170 million American users remains segregated from TikTok’s global servers in any sale.
• If ByteDance fails to complete the divestiture by September 17, the current TikTok app will be banned and removed from U.S. app stores.