TikTok It is on everyone’s lips. The well-known social network, which has gained fame in recent years for its majority use among young people, has also generated controversy because the authorities consider that it has certain “toxic” practices that could endanger national security.
It was his own donald trump the one who spoke in those terms last year 2020, when he stated that he would prohibit the use of TikTok in USA. The app, owned by China ByteDancegenerated a debate in the US Foreign Investment Committee, concerned about whether the data it can collect from North American users could end up in the hands of the Chinese Government, despite the fact that the company assured that it stores its data outside the Asian country and that it It would resist any attempt by Beijing to appropriate the information.
The following years continued with information of a US veto of TikTok, which has led to a rumor about the possible acquisition of Elon Musk. This has been reported by Bloomberg, which cites sources close to the case to report that this scenario gains strength if the US Supreme Court decides to support the law that can close the social network.
The deadline for saying goodbye to TikTok in the United States
The United States Supreme Court must decide whether to support the regulations that can end the use of TikTok in the country if it is not separated from its parent company, ByteDance, before January 19as stipulated by law.
The regulation was approved by the United States Congress last April by Democrats and Republicans and gave ByteDance a nine-month period to find an investor from a country that is not considered an ‘adversary’ of the US.
The legislators justified this decision by arguing that the platform represents a threat to national security due to the possibility of the Chinese Government accessing user data.
The possible closure of TikTok in the US could occur just one day before Trump returns to the presidency, this Monday, January 20.
TikTok calls the sale to Elon Musk “pure fiction”
Following the information from Bloomberg, a TikTok spokesperson sent a statement to EFE in which he assured that “You can’t expect to comment on something that is pure fiction”in reference to the possible acquisition of Musk.
This medium assures that the Chinese authorities evaluate how “possible option” the acquisition by the American tycoon, owner of X and who will be part of the Trump Administration, of TikTok’s operations in the United States.
The next president of the United States promised during his campaign that “I would save TikTok”differing from his first speech in the previous mandate, in which he tried to ban the social network.
Elon Musk’s stance on TikTok
The tycoon already defended last April that TikTok “should not be banned in the United States”: “Doing so would go against freedom of expression, and that is not what the United States stands for.”
However, China has a ‘golden share’ in ByteDance which gives him the right to veto any decision.