Musk said that helium does not usage the societal media app TikTok and is not adjacent acquainted with the format of the app, adding “I don't person immoderate plans for what I would bash if I had TikTok." (Photo: X / @elonmusk)
Billionaire Elon Musk has clarified that helium is not funny successful purchasing TikTok, the fashionable abbreviated video level which the United States has been trying to prohibition owed to interest implicit its Chinese proprietor ByteDance.
Musk, who is starring US President Donald Trump’s recently formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), made the comments successful precocious January during a acme hosted by The WELT Group which is simply a portion of the German media institution Axel Springer SE.
Amid increasing uncertainty implicit TikTok’s aboriginal successful the US, President Donald Trump had said that helium was unfastened to Musk taking implicit the ByteDance-owned app if helium wanted to bash so. To which, Musk responded successful the acme that “I person not enactment successful a bid for TikTok.”
Musk said that helium does not usage the societal media app TikTok and is not adjacent acquainted with the format of the app, adding “I don’t person immoderate plans for what I would bash if I had TikTok.”
Talking astir his earlier billion-dollar acquisition of X (formerly called Twitter) arsenic unusual, Musk said “I’m not chomping astatine the spot to get TikTok, I bash not get companies successful general, it’s rather rare,” Reuters reported.
TikTok genitor ByteDance was fixed clip until January to merchantability its US assets oregon look a prohibition successful the state arsenic lawmakers expressed concerns implicit information of American citizens owed to the company’s basal situated successful China and Beijing could compel the institution to stock the information of its US users.
However, Trump had signed an enforcement bid aft taking bureau connected January 20 to hold the enforcement of a ban. TikTok has astir 170 cardinal users successful America.
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