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Jimmy Donaldson – nickname Mr. – He was cheerful when he told tens of millions of Tiktok followers about his attempt to buy the platform.
“It has become your new CEO, comrades! I’m so excited!” Donaldson said from a private plane. Then he started the promise of $ 10,000 for five new followers.
The publication of the Internet creator has been seen more than 73 million times since Monday. Donaldson said he could not share details about his offer, but he promised: “Just know, it will be crazy.”
Donaldson is one of the many fiancées who expressed their interest in buying Tiktok, the social media platform with great popularity, which has become the subject of fast -moving political drama in the United States.
Last year, former President Joe Biden signed a law granting the parent company to Tiktok, based in China, a deadline until January 19 to sell the platform or face the embargo in the United States.
Legislation dealt with concerns about TIKTOK links to the Chinese government and concerns about the fact that the application is a threat to national security.
President Donald Trump put forward the possibility of creating a joint project.
“I would have a 50%ownership.” “By doing this, we save Tiktok and keep it in safe hands and allow him to do so [stay up]”.
Trump has since signed an executive order that allows the application to stay in operation for another 75 days.
Earlier this month, Bloomberg I mentioned That China was considering selling Tiktok to her Ilon MuskThe richest man in the world and a ally close to President Trump, who already owns the social media platform X.
Musk books On the X program this week, he said that although its opposition to the TIKTOK ban has long ago, “the current situation is allowed to work in America, but X is not allowed to work in China, unbalanced. Something must be changed.”
At a press conference on Tuesday, one of the correspondents asked Trump if he was ready to buy a platform mask.
The president replied, “I will do if he wants to buy it, yes.”
“I would like to buy it as well,” Trump added, referring to the president of Oracle Larry EllsonHe is a long -standing supporter of Trump and was on the stage with him for a separate advertisement.
Oracle is one of the main servers of Tiktok, administration Many data centers where billions of videos are stored in the platform.
Last year, Oracle warned that the Tiktok ban could harm its work. The cloud computing giant was also a major competitor to buy the social media platform in 2020, when Trump was trying to block it.
Billionaire investor Frank McCort He also expressed his interest in Tiktok, and made media interviews about this possibility for several months.
McCort said that Tiktok is working on the technology supervised by the Project Liberty Institute, which was founded. He criticized data collection practices for social media.
Project Liberty offers an offer to buy Tiktok without its own algorithm. McCort He said CNBC this week that the Liberty project “is not interested in the algorithm or Chinese technology” even with its admission that the platform “becomes less valuable” without it.
Finally, President Trump is likely to have a major role in choosing an American buyer for Tiktok.
“The winner will likely be a political sympathy for President Donald Trump,” said Anopam Chandar, a law professor at Georgetown University.
Professor Chunder said that the joint ownership model is 50-50 does not correspond to the requirements of the law, which may push Trump to pressure Congress to review the law.
Currently, the future of the platform is still oblivious.
Professor Chunder said that the Biden administration committed a “easy mistake” by allowing the law to grant the president a great control over those who own Tiktok.
“It was a terrible idea to put the future of a huge information platform in this political vortex,” said Professor Chunder.
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2025-01-25 01:15:00
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