By Alexandra Alper
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marco Rubio and five other Republican senators called on the Trump administration to reject a proposed deal for Oracle <ORCL.N> to become a "trusted technology provider" for popular social media platform TikTok's U.S. operations if ties to Chinese owner Bytedance remain.
Marco Rubio, the first senator to call on the administration to investigate TikTok over censorship concerns, said in the letter to President Donald Trump that "serious questions" remained about Oracle's role, the technology it would provide to Bytedance, and the future of the application's algorithm.
"We remain opposed to any deal that would allow China-based or controlled entities to retain, control or modify the code or algorithms that operate any U.S.-based version of TikTok," Rubio wrote in the letter, dated Wednesday.
"We are heartened that this deal ...
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