The legislation included concern for Tiktok ties with the Chinese government and fears that the program is a danger to national security.
President Donald Trump has expressed the opportunity to set up a joint venture.
“I would like the United States to have 50% property,” he said on a Sunday’s Truth Social message. “By doing this, we save Tiktok, keep it in good hands and allow it (awake).”
Since then, Trump has signed an order that allows the program to remain in work for another 75 days.
Previously this month Bloomberg reported. outer which China considered the possibility of selling tiktok ILO MUKThe richest man in the world and a close associate of President Trump, who already owns the Social Network Platform.
Musk itself wrote. outer On X this week, although he has long opposed the Tiktok ban on the ban, “the current situation is when Tiktok is allowed to work in America but X has no right to work in China unbalanced. Something needs to be changed. “
At a press conference on Tuesday, the reporter asked Trump whether he was ready to buy a mask platform.
“I would, if he wanted to buy, yes,” the president replied.
“I would like Larry too bought it,” Trump added, referring to the chairman of Oracle Larry AlisonA longtime supporter of Trump, who was on stage with him for a separate ad.
Oracle – One of the main Tiktok server suppliers, control. outer Many of the data processing centers where billions of video platforms are stored.
Last year, Oracle warned that the Tiktok ban could hurt her business. The cloud computing giant was also the main contender for the purchase of the social networking platform in 2020 when Trump tried to ban it.
The billionaire investor Frank McCort He also expressed his interest in Tiktok and interviewed the media about the prospect for months.
McCort said he wants Tiktok to work on the technology controlled by the Institute of Freedom of the project he founded. He was critical of the practice of collecting data from social networks.
Liberty project claims Tiktok without its own algorithm. Macort told. outer This week, CNBC said Project Liberty “is not interested in the algorithm or Chinese technology”, even if it admitted that without their platform “is less”.
After all, President Trump will probably play a major role in choosing a Tiktok buyer in the US.
“This will be the winner who is likely to be politically sympathetic to President Donald Trump,” said Anup Chander, Professor of the University of Georgetown.
Professor Chander said the 50-50 joint property model does not meet the requirements of the law, which can force Trump to put pressure on Congress to force him to revise the law.
At the moment, the future platform remains in the suspended state.
Professor Chander said the Biden administration made a “unwavering mistake”, allowing the law to give the president to the extraordinary control over who owns Tiktok.
“It was a terrible idea – to put the future of a massive information platform in this political whirlpool,” said Professor Chander.
