White House Seriously considering Oracle’s treatment to run Tiktok

The Oracle software company is accelerating the conversations with the White House in an agreement to administer Tiktok, although there are significant concerns about the role that Chinese founders of the application will play in their operation on the American ongoing course, according to three people familiar with discussions.

Vice President JD Vance and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, the two officials President Donald Trump He has responsible for guiding an agreement to bring Tiktok under the property of the United States, he is taking the initiative of the negotiations, while the senators have expressed the desire to be read in any conversation, two of the people said. A third person described the discussions of the White House as in the advanced stages.

The people who were granted anonymity were not authorized to publicly discuss the delicate details of the ongoing negotiations.

It occurs in the midst of continuous warnings of the Republicans of the Congress and other Falcons of China than any new property agreement, if it maintains the underlying technology of Tiktok in Chinese hands, it could only be a surface level solution for the security concerns that led to Problante of the prohibition of bipartisan application. Key legislators, including worried Republicans, are bringing Oracle this week to discuss the possible agreement and increased national security concerns, according to four people familiar with meetings.

One of the three people familiar with the discussions with Oracle said that the agreement would essentially require that the United States government depends on Oracle to supervise the data of US users and ensure that the Chinese government does not have a rear door, a promise that the person warned that it would be impossible to maintain.

“If Oracle’s agreement advances, you still have this (algorithm) controlled by the Chinese. That means that everything he is doing is ‘to trust Oracle’ to disseminate the data and ensure that there is no ‘back door’ to the data, “the person told politician.

If, for example, the algorithm is not completely rebuilt by its owner of the United States or if the Beijing Matrix firm in Tiktok, Bytedance, maintains a role in its operations, could retain vulnerabilities that could be exploited by the Chinese government.

Haystackid Data Company, which serves as independent security inspectors for Tiktok Us, said in February that Has not found indications Of internal or external malicious activity, it has not identified any US user data that has been shared with China.

Oracle, Tiktok, Bytedance and the White House spokesmen did not immediately respond to comments requests.

The agreement is being invoiced as a “Texas 2.0 project”, a wink to a previous agreement between Tiktok and Oracle to relocate the data of US users to Texas and block by the employees of Bytedance in China, according to the first person. But that agreement, which also required that Oracle reviewed the Tiktok source code to determine its safety, could not calm the concerns of the administration of Congress and Biden that China uses the application as a espionage and propaganda tool.

The output of technology -centered information Thursday reported that Oracle It is a “leading contender” to execute Tiktok, with a byteye who prefers it for paper. The details about the White House approach and the seriousness with which White House officials are considering that the proposal has not been previously informed.

It occurs when Trump looks at a deadline of April 5 to ensure a new owner for the Chinese Video Company shared after Signed an executive order in January Delay the application of the prohibition of the application of the application for 75 days. The application was briefly obscured for approximately 12 hours in January after the Tiktok parent company did not comply with the deadline to sell its participation and the prohibition of the Supreme Court confirmed the prohibition of Congress.

Vance, during an interview with NBC News on Friday, said he hoped that a Tiktok agreement would be reached before the deadline of early April. Last week, Trump said his administration was in conversations with “four different groups” on an agreement.

Trump told reporters in January that he was open to the founder and executive president of Oracle, Larry Ellison, buying Tiktok. Ellison is a Trump defender for a long time, and is part of the so -called Stargate project, an AI infrastructure initiative of $ 500 billion that also includes Openai, Softbank and MGX.

While Trump during his first administration sought to prohibit Tiktok about national security concerns, he embraced the application last year in the campaign. In December, he told multitudes of young conservative supporters in a rally of inflection points in Phoenix that has “a warm point in my heart for Tiktok” due to the effusion of support he received from the youngest voters in the 2024 elections. The reversal of the Trump campaign occurred after a meeting with Jeff Yass, a republican donor who possesses a large part of bytete. (Trump has denied that the subject be discussed).

It is not clear if the agreement that finally reaches the White House will satisfy China’s hawks in the hill, although they may have little power to complain. The Trump Executive Order that extends the initial deadline, given the concerns of the legislators of the Republican Party and the legal experts on the legality of the order, showed its willingness to challenge the will of the Congress. And the decision on whether byaDance sells to Tiktok or authorizes its use by an American company falls to the Chinese government.

Beijing wants to protect Tiktok’s monopoly access to its users’ data and is hostile to any suggestion that Chinese companies be doubled to the will of suspicious foreign governments. During the last year, the authorities in Beijing and in the Chinese embassy in Washington have mostly dodged questions about the state of possible conversations for the purchase of Tiktok by a non -Chinese company.

The little Beijing has said about that possibility has not offered much hope that he is in favor of such agreement. The Chinese government “will firmly oppose” for any forced sale of the company and will require that the Bytedance “seeks government approval in accordance with Chinese regulations” for any possible foreign property agreement, spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Chinese Shu judging told reporters In March. That same month in the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Wang Wenbin accused Congress of “resorting to hegemonic movements” to try to take control of the application. In January, the Chinese government deployed a more conciliatory language on a possible sale of Tiktok, but did not offer clues about whether it would approve such an agreement.

Any transaction of this type “must be decided independently by companies according to the principles of the market”, spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mao None said in January.

Phelim Kine contributed to this report.