Lily Jamali

She noted that it's not just the fact that, you know, TikTok is fun for American users.

It's also a vital tool for a lot of small business owners and job creators in America.

She noted that.

The 7.1 million figure that TikTok sometimes floats as how many business owners use TikTok to market themselves on this platform.

So she's hoping that new owners will make sure it stays a useful ecosystem for business owners like herself.

But there is this big question about the algorithm.

We did get some answers about that because the algorithm is what controls what American users see.

What we're told is that it will be retrained on user data from Americans to ensure that the content feed is free from outside manipulation.

Again, that's why this law was first passed.

TikTok has always denied that the algorithm was ever manipulated to elevate the political views that Beijing wants out there.

It's easy to read this as a sign of positive relations.

You know, President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in October, and TikTok was really front and center ahead of that meeting.

There's been so much tension between the U.S.

and China on the race to win, you know, the artificial intelligence race, trade tensions and tariffs.

And so, you know, when Trump and Xi met, we were told going into that a deal would be finalized.

Nothing was really put on paper after that, as far as we could tell.

But here now we see that something has been finalized and this deal is moving forward.

Lily Jamali.

The whole of society needs to understand that the people who three or four years ago were your neighbors have been through something entirely different.

And the warmer the welcome they receive here, the fewer tragedies we'll face, fewer suicides, less drug abuse and alcoholism there will be.