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Evening Standard
Technology
Martyn Landi

China 'discussing sale of TikTok to Elon Musk' amid fears of US ban

Elon Musk is already the owner of X - (Getty Images)

Officials in China are weighing up the possible sale of TikTok to Elon Musk if it can not overturn an impending US ban, according to reports.

Bloomberg News reports that the social media giant’s US business could either be sold through a competitive process or through an arrangement by the Chinese government, suggesting the app’s future is no longer solely in the hands of parent firm ByteDance.

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