Microsoft’s potential TikTok buyout is a lot harder than it sounds

Microsoft is negotiating a transition period that will give it time to ringfence TikTok technologically from ByteDance after they agree to a deal, Reuters reported on Aug. 2. TikTok uses recommendation algorithms that are independent from Douyin, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Not only would TikTok have to be separated from ByteDance, it would have to be broken up from TikTok’s other regions. “The biggest part is separating the user data – both content and data about users,” DuBois said, noting hard disks of data would likely need to be transferred between ByteDance and Microsoft. TikTok had said its user data was stored in the US, with a backup in Singapore, separate from the rest of the company.

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