Elon Musk will not buy Tiktok, at least for the moment

Tiktok

Tiktok is a social video clip sharing network which quickly established itself as a leader in this field, available in mobile application, you can take it everywhere with you.

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The banishment still weighs on Tiktok as a sword of Damocles, even if the social network At a time of respite following the intervention of Donald Trump. To continue exercising in the United States, the platform must be sold to an American company and it is said that Microsoft could be interested.

Elon Musk sweeps the possibility of a buyout

As for Elon Musk, since rumors spoke of a tiktok repurchase by the billionaireit's Niet, at least for the moment. During the Welt Economic Summit, the Tesla leader said: “I did not make an offer for Tiktok.” The businessman continued: “I have no plan on what I would do if I had Tiktok. I guess I would examine the algorithm and try to determine: to what extent is this algorithm useful ?

Elon Musk adds that he does not“used [pas] Tiktok personally “ and that he does not know the application well. He adds that the purchase of Twitter, now X, is an exception in his career: “Usually, I built businesses from zero”.

The interview mainly focused on its projects for the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) under the Trump administration. Elon Musk and his allies took the queens of federal agencies and access to large amounts of sensitive data.

“Regarding the government, the real challenge is to overcome the bureaucracy” specifies Elon Musk. “I think that bureaucracy may be the penultimate boss to beat. The final boss is to defeat entropy … The second most difficult fight is to defeat bureaucracy. That is to say How difficult it is to improve the government. “