Ashley Nelson, senior professor of practice at Tulane’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, is available to speak about the current movement to ban TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social media app, from its more than 100 million American users.

Ashley is an expert in social media, executive communication and strategy and content development. Ashley can speak to:

The latest TikTok deal framework leaves one critical question unanswered: who controls the algorithm?

Americans get six of seven board seats, Oracle stores the data and U.S. investors hold the majority stake. The White House says the U.S. will control the algorithm, but Beijing hasn’t agreed. For China, the algorithm is a strategic asset and IP they won’t give up easily. For Washington, it’s the key to data security and national security.