Nick Martell

China is the most sophisticated propagandist the world has ever seen.

And they were in charge of Americans' media diet, the For You page, which we scroll for like four hours a day.

But Jack, it appears China is still in charge of that media outlet algorithm situation.

TikTok's press release actually said Oracle will secure the algorithm.

It also said that the U.S.

entity will have the power to moderate, i.e.

take down content from TikTok it doesn't like.

But the key here is still the algorithm, which determines what you see next and is the reason people like TikTok in the first place.

It's still made in China.

TikTok US will pay ByteDance to use their algorithm.

That's the situation here.

like a McDonald's franchise paying McDonald's corporate to license the Big Mac.

You know what, besties?

Lindsey Graham, the senator, summed it up well.

We've gone round and round and ended up not too far from where we started.

Because if TikTok is a car, we Americans got the chassis, but China is keeping the engine.

Where's the beef?

Where's the algo?

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Boomers love one, Zillennials love the other, but