“We shouldn’t be expected to comment on pure fiction,” a TikTok spokesperson told BBC News.
Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that one possible scenario being considered by Chinese officials would involve Musk’s social media platform X taking control of TikTok’s US operations.
X did not immediately respond to the BBC’s request for comment.
Mask is a a close ally US President-elect Donald Trump, who is due to return to the White House on January 20.
last month, Trump appealed to the Supreme Court delay a decision until he takes office to allow him to seek a “political solution”.
His lawyer filed a legal statement in court saying that Trump “opposes the ban on TikTok” and “seeks to address existing issues through political means when he takes office.”
This comes a week after Trump met with TikTok CEO Shaw Zi-Chu at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
On Monday, two Democratic lawmakers, Sen. Edward Markey and Rep. Roh Hana, also called on Congress and President Joe Biden to extend the deadline to Jan. 19.
During the Supreme Court hearing last week, the judges appeared tends to advocate legislation and meet the deadline.
During nearly three hours of arguments, the nine justices returned again and again to the national security concerns that led to the law’s passage.
The Biden administration has argued that without the sale, TikTok could be used by China as a tool for espionage and political manipulation.
The company has repeatedly denied any influence from the Chinese Communist Party and said the law to ban it in the US violates users’ rights to free speech enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
