
TikTok is now allowing Oracle to review changes to its algorithms in an effort to double-check they aren’t being influenced by the Chinese government. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has been under intense pressure from U.S. regulators to allow such domestic oversight after it was revealed in June that TikTok had been sending American data to China after all.
The official data reviews began just last week, a TikTok spokesperson confirmed to Axios. Oracle has been given dominion over “regular vetting and validation” of the AI-driven tools used for moderation and For You Page content discovery.