China may also want to use Musk to get to Trump. A TikTok deal could serve as leverage in negotiations with the incoming administration to avert the massive tariffs the president-elect has ...

Musk and President-elect Donald Trump have opposed banning TikTok. Trump, whose next term begins Monday, asked the Supreme Court last month to delay a ban so he can negotiate a way to save the app.

Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app ...

Chinese officials have reportedly discussed selling TikTok's US operations to Elon Musk as the threat of a US ban looms. Sources "familiar with the matter" told Bloomberg that Chinese officials ...

Shortly before Biden signed a bipartisan bill giving ByteDance a Jan. 19 deadline to divest its U.S. assets — including the sale of TikTok — or face a ban, Elon Musk posted on X that he ...

Officials at TikTok said they could not be expected to comment on pure fiction when asked about rumors China was looking into having Elon Musk acquire the social media platform.

TikTok denied a report that China is looking at potentially facilitating a sale of the app to tech billionaire Elon Musk to keep TikTok operational in America amid a looming U.S. government ban.

China in talks to sell TikTok to Elon Musk, reports say. Parent company of video app called reports ‘pure fiction’ Josh Marcus. in San Francisco. Tuesday 14 January 2025 07:13 GMT.

After years of rejecting the idea of a sale of TikTok’s US assets to an American buyer in order to avert a ban, China and ByteDance may have found an owner they could live with: Elon Musk.