Reports Claim China Discusses TikTok Sale to Elon Musk; TikTok Denies as 'Fiction'

New revelations about Musk, who would be ready to buy the Chinese social network close to the ban in the US: the oozing evokes strategies to blow everything up. The transfer of the platform into US hands would radically change the balance of hybrid wars. Once it is there. Two maybe it means...

TikTok is running out of time and options

As the clock ticks down on TikTok, it’s getting to be decision-making time.

Can Elon Musk really save TikTok?

Laura Normand / The Verge Chinese officials are reportedly exploring a backup plan for TikTok after the Supreme Court appeared unlikely to save it from a US ban. With TikTok’s legal options nearly exhausted, multiple news outlets are reporting that China is considering an option it previously said it wouldn’t: letting ByteDance sell the app. The kicker? China is reportedly mulling having President-elect Donald Trump’s favorite tech billionaire, …

Elon Musk, New Owner of TikTok? Not Out of the Question

Chinese officials are reportedly weighing a sale to the billionaire X owner, in a last-minute bid to avert its imminent ban in the US.

TikTok seeks to dismiss a lawsuit that Governor Josh Stein filed against the social media company when Stein was serving as the Attorney General of North Carolina. The motion of dismissal came to the North Carolina Commercial Court on Friday. On the same day, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a federal case challenging a Congressional ban against TikTok if he refuses to divest his parent company based in China. “The state of North C…

China ponders selling TikTok's U.S. branch to Musk

Officials in the Chinese government are reportedly considering contingency plans should the U.S. choose to ban TikTok this month, possibly selling the app's U.S. operations to tech billionaire Elon Musk.