There's the proposal for a lease agreement, but how you get that algorithm completely out of the Chinese control is going to be up to the experts. There's 6 million pieces of code in this algorithm, and we need to make sure that it's protected for the American people. So that algorithm is the data tracking system that's pulled from a user's habits. And so the accusation was also that this was basically manipulating consumers in terms of what they were able to see. (01:59–02:09)
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Asserts that TikTok's algorithm consists of 6 million pieces of code.
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