The Chicago Report: President Trump backs Oracle-led TikTok deal

The clock is ticking on a deal for TikTok. Late last week, the president announced he struck a deal to spin off the American version of the company from the Chinese company Byte Dance, amid worries that the government of China has been using it to spread propaganda.

What a U.S. sale could mean for TikTok

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order allowing a deal which will put TikTok under U.S. ownership. Kelley Cotter, assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, joins us to explain what this could mean for TikTok — and for its algorithm.

Deal reached to "save" TikTok, Trump suggests

The president said a meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials went well and that a TikTok deal was reached regarding “a ‘certain’ company" young people in the U.S. "very much wanted to save."