{"id":649120,"date":"2025-01-14T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/china-is-reportedly-open-to-elon-musk-acquiring-tiktok-us\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T07:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T04:00:35","slug":"china-is-reportedly-open-to-elon-musk-acquiring-tiktok-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/china-is-reportedly-open-to-elon-musk-acquiring-tiktok-us\/","title":{"rendered":"#China is reportedly open to Elon Musk acquiring TikTok US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese government officials have reportedly discussed a scenario where ByteDance sells TikTok\u2019s United States arm to Elon Musk, should the Supreme Court uphold the law banning the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> on January 19. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-01-14\/china-discusses-sale-of-tiktok-us-to-musk-as-one-possible-option?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech&amp;utm_content=tech&amp;utm_medium=social\">Bloomberg reports<\/a> that China would strongly prefer for TikTok to stay under ByteDance\u2019s ownership, but says government officials have considered a sale to Musk as part of a broader plan to work with incoming president Donald Trump\u2019s administration. In that scenario, Musk\u2019s X would acquire TikTok US, effectively absorbing the vertical video platform\u2019s 170 million American users and billions in potential ad revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A TikTok spokesperson called the report \u201cpure fiction\u201d in a statement to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/digital\/news\/tiktok-elon-musk-sale-china-pure-fiction-1236273557\/\">Variety.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report states it is unclear how much ByteDance and TikTok know about China\u2019s discussions of a Musk sale, potentially highlighting China\u2019s alleged influence over the platform which brought about this law in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Bloomberg reports that China would strongly prefer for TikTok to stay under ByteDance\u2019s ownership, but says government officials have considered a sale to Musk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2183088712.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[39394,151537,151418,147047,31059,47912,71303],"class_list":["post-649120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-elon-musk","tag-government-policy","tag-in-brief","tag-musk","tag-social","tag-tiktok","tag-tiktok-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}