The boss of X, who has been tipped to buy TikTok for weeks, said at the end of January that he had not made an offer in this regard and that he had no intention of doing so.
Trump will have to rely on another American tycoon to buy the platform. The owner of the social network X, Elon Musk , said in late January that he had not made an offer to buy the popular TikTok app, which is on borrowed time in the United States.
“I didn’t make an offer for TikTok. And I don’t even know what I would do if I had TikTok,” Musk said on January 28, during a remote intervention at an event in Germany, a video of which was released by the organizers on Saturday.
Building Businesses from Scratch
In his speech in late January, Elon Musk indicated that he does not use the app himself and that he usually builds companies from “scratch” rather than buying them.
His $44 billion acquisition of Twitter (now X) in 2022 is an exception, but the goal was to “preserve freedom of expression,” he added.
TikTok on probation in the United States
US President Donald Trump himself had placed the Tesla and SpaceX boss on the list of entrepreneurs expected to buy the application, declaring on January 21 that he would be in favor of the operation if his ally Elon Musk “wanted to buy it.”
TikTok is under US law requiring it to cut ties with its Chinese owner ByteDance or face being banned in the United States.
US lawmakers justified the bill by saying it was necessary to prevent Chinese authorities from accessing US user data or manipulating opinion in the United States. Donald Trump gave TikTok until early April to sell its US operations.
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