Elon Musk recently said that he was “not in the play to buy Tiktok”.
Musk made these comments during an interview at the World Economic Summit on January 28th. A. Video of the interview was released today.
The interview came after President Donald Trump Delayed a law Require that the parent company bytedance Tiktok is sold or banned in the USA. At the time there were reports that The Chinese government was open to a deal in which Musk (a key -trump allied) would acquire the app. Trump even told reporters that he would like to see how musk or oracle chairman Larry Ellison Tiktok acquire; He is too signed an executive order Creation of a confident asset fund that could acquire a participation in the app.
But Musk claimed that he was not interested and said Rundweg: “I did not offer a offer for Tiktok.”
“I have no plans for what I would do if I had Tiktok,” he said in the interview. “I think I would look at the algorithm and try to decide: How helpful or useful is this algorithm? And what can we do to change the algorithm so that they are more productive and ultimately are advantageous for humanity? “
He added that he did not use Tikkok personally and “so that it is not so familiar”. And he described his acquisition of Twitter (now X) as an anomaly in his career: “I usually build companies from scratch.”
Musk’s comments on Tikkok came into the interview for almost 20 minutes, which initially focused on his plans for his Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) under the Trump government. Musk and its allies then took control of federal authorities and Obtained sensitive data to access to large deeper.
“With regard to the government, the challenge is really to overcome bureaucracy,” he said. “I think bureaucracy is perhaps the penultimate boss fight. The ultimate boss fight defeats entropy … The second hardest battle is the defeat of the bureaucracy. It is so difficult to improve the government. “
