China reportedly considers selling TikTok US to Elon Musk - ThreadSky

techcrunch.com • 45 days ago

China reportedly considers selling TikTok US to Elon Musk

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markewastaken.bsky.social•45 days ago

Worse outcome than a ban.

greenbayrocks.bsky.social•45 days ago

Posting fake news is a feature which had help many to leave X. Now it’s already happening on Bluesky

katrinia21.bsky.social•45 days ago

He'll make more money off of TIK TOK.
HIS EGO IS AS HUGE AS A SNAIL.
PRIDE AND EGO GET YOU NO ETERNAL HEAVEN WHEN YOU HURT OTHER HUMANS.

codystumpo.bsky.social•45 days ago

The obvious point of all this. Security issue is drummed up to force sale to shadow president.

jzero2003.bsky.social•45 days ago

Breaking: The US reportedly considers selling Elon Musk to Greenland

altsprite.bsky.social•45 days ago

Christ alive, that would be exactly what happens at this point.

shopgirl2694.bsky.social•45 days ago

Wow... so he can turn it into another propaganda site?

calamera.bsky.social•45 days ago

Huh, who would have thought?

jbmeltemoji.bsky.social•45 days ago

So China, the country, is brokering a deal for Bytedance? The actual company that operates TikTok?

fmrman.bsky.social•45 days ago

What it means is that the ownership changes in name only.

dcnats.bsky.social•45 days ago

Elon is more evil than Chinese communists

longstorychort.bsky.social•45 days ago

Delusional take, Elon is evil but he isn’t actively committing genocide

dcnats.bsky.social•45 days ago

Only because there’s no money in it

longstorychort.bsky.social•45 days ago

lol one of the guys blocked me because he had no argument

leogbsky.bsky.social•45 days ago

Right, he’s no Netanyahu

adefesioso.canica.pe•45 days ago

As far as you know…

just-some-dude.bsky.social•45 days ago

Oh FFS

annie74strong.bsky.social•45 days ago

Well of course

uriahforfun.bsky.social•45 days ago

Watching Elon drive a second social media app into the ground was not on my bingo card.

inyim.bsky.social•45 days ago

Right! 😐😩

libramonkee.bsky.social•45 days ago

If this is the alternative, just go ahead and ban it.

johhnym.bsky.social•44 days ago

Isn't that basically the definition of Grifting?

franneep.bsky.social•45 days ago

They know a chump when they see one.

funsizedaddy.bsky.social•45 days ago

anybody but him!

davidbfox.com•45 days ago

One more SM platform that he’d ruin. I wouldn’t stay long enough to find out.

mshepp.bsky.social•44 days ago

Sure, they will. They have no problem taking his money when he over pays for it ruins it and china just make tik tok 2.0.

khaotickane.bsky.social•45 days ago

WTF?!

raymondvantoor.bsky.social•45 days ago

‘TikTok Calls Report That China Is Exploring Sale of App to Elon Musk ‘Pure Fiction’.

“We can’t be expected to comment on pure fiction,” a TikTok rep said in reply to Variety‘s request for comment.’

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/tiktok-elon-musk-sale-china-pure-fiction-1236273557/

benperdition.bsky.social•45 days ago

Oh great, cause he did such a great job with Twitter...

maciej.bsky.social•45 days ago

Horrible news/rumor.

usdapitbeef.bsky.social•45 days ago

this dude can eat a bu...I mean dick.

kimwhitesell.bsky.social•44 days ago

Please God let that shit happen then the rest of will know who is in control Trump or Elon. Our youth is so much smarter than we are

heroinbob.bsky.social•45 days ago

This should be highly illegal. I wish Elon musk would go back to his home planet.

darrinlrussell.bsky.social•44 days ago

great, then TikTok would decline and go bankrupt too.

rommix0.bsky.social•44 days ago

And become a white supremacist platform that ends up to have a lot of people on it.

shannisohelluva.bsky.social•45 days ago

If that happens I’m not using tic tok any longer

orzundher.bsky.social•45 days ago

He causes more damage than the chinese... Xi is a genius 😁

voxnational.bsky.social•45 days ago

mcsaltyson.bsky.social•45 days ago

someone else buy it, just not him ffs.

todmanpla.bsky.social•45 days ago

If I were china I would just withdraw from the US market.
Let the rest of the world use tiktok and Americans can use a firewall

windexone.bsky.social•45 days ago

No Musk, No Zuck.

clash77.bsky.social•45 days ago

More free speech! 🤮

sheispunny.bsky.social•45 days ago

Mark Cuban is kind of about it lol. Probably because that’ll stretch his resources to do more sinister things thin?

atnylinuxadmin.bsky.social•45 days ago

Oh HELL no!!!

ryanthehood.bsky.social•45 days ago

Please god no

mulkaofficial.bsky.social•44 days ago

that's a lie

grantlanning.bsky.social•45 days ago

Of course because Elon will absolutely sell everyone's data from TikTok to China just like he does with Tesla and Twitter.

toireasaoflinn.bsky.social•45 days ago

So instead of CCP monitoring US citizens we will have Musk & CCP monitoring US citizens as TikTok goes full right wing.

mannycat.bsky.social•45 days ago

im glad I dont go on it!

davek67.bsky.social•45 days ago

denise1155.bsky.social•45 days ago

Who would lend him the money? He had a hard time buying Twitter and look what he’s done to it. I wouldn’t lend him a dime.

dean3815.bsky.social•44 days ago

So how is that any better

amygrayce.bsky.social•45 days ago

Do it and then watch TikTok crumble just like Twitter did! Bye!!

hexene0x.bsky.social•45 days ago

Oh, boy…

tatersfly.bsky.social•45 days ago

What's to keep musky from buying #TitCok and hiring chinese spys to work for SpaceX⁉️

Divest SpaceX U.S. contracts due to security clearance violations‼️

collapse-laughs.bsky.social•45 days ago

Because he's done such wonders for Twitter so obviously give him another major social media channel 🙄

gmmalakian.bsky.social•45 days ago

If it ture, Musk will kill it.

bakoko.bsky.social•45 days ago

Then he can destroy TT, just like Twitter!

jocularreel.bsky.social•45 days ago

The Onion, Hard Times and Babylon Bee's writing staff are going to have a rough time the next 4 years.

🍻 Here's to hoping for fun natured, non-serious satire vs new dystopian nightmares 🥹

speasley.bsky.social•45 days ago

Might as well drive that one into the dirt, too.

ahlemmahroua.bsky.social•45 days ago

Apparently Bytedance denied, do we know where this is at?

bradbillmaier.bsky.social•45 days ago

Who is going to finance it? Morgan Stanley laid off a shitload of bankers on the Twitter fiasco (holding $13b)

jmcanespy.bsky.social•45 days ago

It’s not theirs to sell…

tg2.bsky.social•45 days ago

And yet there'd be no antitrust issues with that?

imamandajo.bsky.social•45 days ago

Of course they are.

elithalia.bsky.social•45 days ago

no please

kv417.bsky.social•45 days ago

No governmental “advisory”conflict of interest there right?

superlanyard.bsky.social•45 days ago

I’d rather the Chinese own it.

dorian-nakamoto.bsky.social•45 days ago

If the goal is to avoid a national security risk, this isn’t any better

misterbbb.bsky.social•45 days ago

Musk will screw up TicTok just like he screwed up Twitter.

botchedlobotomy.bsky.social•44 days ago

I wasn't aware the entirety of China owned tiktok. Last I checked it's a company not property of the Chinese communist party.

cathleenabeans.bsky.social•45 days ago

That'll kill it off entirely

antioligarchy.bsky.social•45 days ago

Well, that would be one way to destroy America more quickly.

bankingonchange.bsky.social•45 days ago

Hell no! I’m open to crowdfund with everyone on #bsky to buy TikTok! Let’s do it!

barb23.bsky.social•45 days ago

If he buys it we're all leaving tik tok

itsrt.bsky.social•45 days ago

Oh no !!!

mrfusion.bsky.social•45 days ago

Update:
https://bsky.app/profile/culturecrave.co/post/3lfo47vnc6g23

barb23.bsky.social•45 days ago

Great just like we're leaving meta we already left X we will leave tiktok

whitebuginaz.bsky.social•45 days ago

Wait, wait. Is he still going to be in Trump's cabinet? Would that not be some kind of conflict of interest.
Is the sale of a Chinese company to Musk making anyone else ponder what's wrong with this picture?

shonstein.bsky.social•45 days ago

Anti-trust prohibition?

chrischristine.bsky.social•45 days ago

Arghh let's hope not

deege.bsky.social•45 days ago

Now is the time to create a Tik Tok clone!

zig24.bsky.social•45 days ago

To their favorite(?) billionaire? Gosh. What could possibly go wrong.

waynepatriot.bsky.social•45 days ago

Apparently both sides are denying this, so this is either YES they are, or NO they aren't.

scorpiosoulx.bsky.social•45 days ago

They may as well go ahead and ban it.

tokillamockingbird.bsky.social•45 days ago

Getting Elmo to buy Tik Tok would get rid of it faster than banning it.

maximumeffort433.bsky.social•45 days ago

Talk about slamming the door on your way out.

kevinmulhall.bsky.social•45 days ago

He'd just merge it with X
Not sure TT users are gonna like that.
Besides he could partially monetize the aquisition by selling back that TT data to the PRC.

netsjetsfan.bsky.social•45 days ago

Dang, what a back door fu if it were to happen.

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