Elon Musk said that he was not interested in buying a short Tiktok video service, which the US authorities tried to ban on national security due to the fact that the platform belongs to the Chinese company byTeDance. The businessman first commented on this issue at the last month in Germany conference, which was organized by the head of the German media concerninger media concerner Matias Dopner.
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«I did not make an offer to buy Tiktok. I have no considerations regarding me if I had Tiktok, ”Musk said, noting that he personally does not use the video service. “I’m in no hurry to purchase Tiktok. Usually I create companies from scratch, ”added Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022, which was later renamed X.
Last month, Bloomberg News wrote about the possible acquisition of the American business Tiktok Ilon Mask. Apparently, the company still will not be able to avoid the ban on the territory of the United States, which is why BYTEDANCE will have to sell the American unit. Immediately after the US President, Donald Trump, signed a decree that temporarily suspended Tiktok’s blocking in the country, which gave the Chinese owner the platform more time to conclude a transaction. Trump also stated that it would not have been the fact that Musk or the head of Oracle Larry Ellison became the new owner of Tiktok.