TikTok USDS Joint Venture Closes, With Oracle as Trusted Security Partner
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCETechCrunch[3]: "On Thursday, January 22, 2026, TikTok[1] announced that the TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC had officially been established"; the newsroom post is headed January 23.
The US-majority TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC was established, taking over TikTok's US data, algorithm and moderation, with US user data and the algorithm secured in Oracle's US cloud.