The media reported on the signing of TikTok asset sale deal in the United States

Representatives of the TikTok short video creation and viewing service have signed a deal to sell their American company to a joint venture controlled by US investors. This was announced on Thursday, December 18, by the Axios portal with reference to relevant documents.

"The deal will put an end to a long—running saga forcing TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the company's American division to domestic (American. — Ed.) to the owners in order to reduce concerns about national security," the article says.

The deal itself, as emphasized in the text, is scheduled for January 22, 2026. According to the documents, Oracle Corporation, Silver Lake and MGX will jointly own 45% of the shares of the American company, another 5% will belong to other new investors, 30.1% to affiliated companies of some existing ByteDance investors, and 19.9% will remain with ByteDance.

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On September 25, US President Donald Trump announced the signing of a deal with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to sell the American segment of TikTok. The head of the White House said that young people were especially interested in this agreement. Later, on October 7, he returned to his account on this social network and stated that he had saved it for the younger generation and said that it was "in debt" to him.

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