Lily Jamali

So what does this mean for TikTok users in the US?

Well, there are 170 million American TikTok users here.

This means that this long period of uncertainty for more than a year now really is over.

Last year, it looked for a time like TikTok might go permanently dark in the US.

Then Donald Trump took office, said he was going to save it.

But still, he was sort of flouting the law by continually extending this deadline by executive order.

I actually got to a TikTok user in Maryland.

Her name is Tiffany Cianci.

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.