Oracle’s cloud computing network has stored TikTok user data on its servers since 2022. Presser, who wrote in a 2024 court filing for TikTok that “a severance of the U.S. TikTok platform from the rest of the globally integrated TikTok platform and business is not feasible,” is now tasked with proving his former self wrong. TikTok users average nearly twice as much time per day on the app compared to users of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram. “I would like to see the fine print of how are things going to work [and] who’s going to control what,” Alon-Beck told TMD. “I think the reality is we don’t actually know what the Chinese government got” in exchange for agreeing to the deal, Castro said.