Warner sees TikTok-like algorithm emerging within one year if Chinese app is banned
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Top technologists believe they can reproduce TikTok's algorithm within a year of a potential ban of the wildly popular video-sharing site by the U.S. government, according to Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat, who added he hopes the app's Chinese owners will agree to sell the company's U.S. operations.