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TikTok Investors Agree to Pay $10 Billion Fee to US Treasury in Deal

Sourced from 3 publications

  • •US investors will pay approximately $10 billion to the Treasury as part of the TikTok acquisition from ByteDance, per a WSJ report cited by Bloomberg.
  • •TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, the newly formed entity, will handle content moderation and US user data protection.
  • •The New York Times characterized the fee as part of the White House's aggressive and unusual involvement in corporate deal making.
  • •The payment sets a potential precedent for the administration to extract significant fees from deals involving foreign-owned technology companies.

Sources

TikTok Investors Set to Pay $10 Billion Fee to Trump Administration

New York Times

US slated to receive $10 billion fee from investors for TikTok deal

Business-standard

US to Receive $10 Billion Fee for TikTok Deal, WSJ Reports

Bloomberg

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