How can you be sure that ByteDance or the Chinese government truly has no means to access U.S. user data or manipulate content on the platform?
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To safeguard against unauthorized access to our systems — such as backdoors or data leakage—every single line of source code that goes into the Oracle environment, whether it comes from TikTok, ByteDance, open source, or third-party, will be inspected and tested. This includes any updates to the code on an ongoing basis. Oracle and a third-party source code inspector will work to ensure that everything is performing as intended. Only validated code will be able to operate in the Oracle environment; if the source code does not pass inspection, it cannot run.