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TikTok secures US future

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The social media giant has finalised a deal to allow it to continue to operate in the United States where its famous algorithm will be retrained exclusively on American user-data.

For the past year TikTok's been at the heart of a dispute between its Chinese owner Bytedance and the US government over data privacy.

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23 Jan 11AM English United Kingdom Business

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