WASHINGTON —

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday that would grant American companies partial ownership of TikTok , a popular social media app currently owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.

U.S. officials have expressed concerns about the company's roots and ownership, as TikTok is currently owned by ByteDance .

The executive order Trump is expected to sign would give U.S.-based tech giants Oracle and Silver Lake the authority to oversee TikTok's security and algorithm , which is key to its popular video recommendation feature.

For years, lawmakers and judges have debated the national security risk TikTok poses because of the data the China-based company can collect. The Trump administration says the changes meet the requirements of

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