Oracle’s Role in TikTok’s Future Gets Capitol Hill Scrutiny
Posted on: Mar 19, 2025 06:17 IST | Posted by: Nytimes
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Top congressional staffers met with Oracle on Tuesday to talk about TikTok, which faces a ban in the United States unless it is sold to a non-Chinese owner by early April.
Sapna Maheshwari and David McCabe
As questions continue to swirl around Washington about the future of TikTok, the name of one potential suitor for the popular video app keeps coming up: Oracle.
On Tuesday, Oracle met with top aides on Capitol Hill to talk about how the U.S. Tech giant, which processes and serves TikTok user data, plans to work with the Chinese-owned video app in the United States in the coming weeks, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting who weren’t authorized to speak publicly.
The questions came as TikTok stares down an April 5 deadline for a federal law that prohibits its distribution in the country if it is not sold to a non-Chinese owner. TikTok’s owner is the Chinese internet company ByteDance, and its Chinese ties have raised questions about whether the app poses a national security threat in the United States.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the aides also raised the topic of whether Oracle would be involved in running TikTok, after a recent Politico report that the company was in talks with the White House over a deal, one of the people said. The aides sought assurances from Oracle that any deal would comply with the law.
The meeting, which was requested by aides, included staffers for the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Speaker Mike Johnson’s office and the House Energy and Commerce Committee, two people with knowledge of the meeting said.
TikTok is facing yet another political scramble over its future. In January, President Trump delayed enforcement of the law that would ban TikTok from the United States, which passed Congress with bipartisan support and which was upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court. Mr. Trump has promised to make a deal for the app to protect national security, and tapped Vice President JD Vance in February to find an arrangement to save it.
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