The Biden Government’s decision shortly before handing over power to Donald Trumpto prohibit the Tiktok In the US it has sparked strong reactions.
Among Donald Trump’s decisions, as soon as he “pressed” the White House Oval Office, was to overthrow this decision by Joe Biden. And now he is trying in every way to “save” Tiktok and avoid a platform ban in the US.
Speaking to Republicans in Miami, the US president claimed that Microsoft is discussing the acquisition of Tiktok so that the Biden law would not apply. “I would say yes“, Trump replied when a journalist asked him if Microsoft is discussing the acquisition of Tiktok.
“Tiktok is of great interest, there is a lot of interest in Tiktok. I like bidding wars because they allow you to achieve the best possible deal, “the US president said.
Donald Trump (He does not… know if he is forbidden to put back, for the third time, a candidacy for president) refused to name other companies that seek to acquire Tiktok, but assured that they were “high -level companies”.
This is the second time Microsoft is allegedly discussing the acquisition of Tiktok.
During his first term, Trump had sought to ban the US platform citing concerns about national security. In 2020, Microsoft was presented as the main company that was interested in its purchase, but soon the talks collapsed.
The Biden Law on Tiktok
Tiktok is used about 170 million Americans. Their access was interrupted for a few hours shortly before the Trump swearing -in, shortly before it is in force of a homonym that has been adopted and requires the parent company, the Chinese ByTedance, to sell the platform as it would otherwise be banned in the US from January 19th.
After being sworn in US president on January 20, Trump signed an executive decree postponing 75 days to implement the legislation.
Trump’s plans
Last week, the US president had pointed out that he was in discussions with many people about the acquisition of Tiktok and added that there was a decision on the future of the popular platform within a month.
After all, Trump has proposed byTedance to grant the US 50% of Tiktok’s capital in exchange for the non -implementation of the legislation. Washington could then give this percentage to US private interests.
According to US public NPR radio, the Trump government is trying to form a group of investors around Oracle (the company that offers cloud services in Tiktok) to take over the algorithm and platform data, while ByTedance will remain a minority shareholder.
Trump has previously stated that he is open to the possibility of buying Tiktok by billionaire Elon Musk if he wishes, although the richest man in the world has not publicly commented on the possibility.