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The latest candidate to become the potential U.S. face of TikTok: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. A ban on TikTok in the United States could go into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19, if Beijing-based ...
Chinese government officials have reportedly discussed selling TikTok's US operations to Elon Musk. Antitrust experts predict that the owner of X could clear any US legal hurdles if such a deal ...
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [4] [5] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[6] [7] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
MrBeast and Elon Musk (Getty) TikTok was only offline for 12 hours in the US before incoming president Donald Trump signalled that he would delay the nationwide ban of the Chinese-owned app.
Elon Musk has used both Meme Man and the "stonks" meme as a reaction on Twitter, [3] [16] and on January 26, 2021, he tweeted the word "Gamestonk!!" [17] with an attached link to r/wallstreetbets. Immediately afterwards, shares in GameStop rose 157 percent in extended-hours trading, which some linked with Musk's tweet. [18] [19]
The result was that the parent company of TikTok, ByteDance—which initially planned on selling a small portion of TikTok to an American company—agreed to divest TikTok to prevent a ban in the United States and in other countries where restrictions are also being considered due to privacy concerns, which themselves are mostly related to its ...
And certainly, many of TikTok's 170 million US users would rather use a Musk-owned TikTok — if they even knew who owned it in the first place — than go without a TikTok at all.
TikTok has denied reports claiming Chinese officials are discussing a potential sale to Elon Musk if the platform is forced to shut down in the U.S. The company’s remarks came in response to ...