Murdoch will be part of a group of US investors -including the Trump allied -who try to take over the Us operations from Tiktok.
Published on September 21, 2025
The President of the United States, Donald Trump Tictoks Operations in the United States.
In an interview with the FOX News Program on Sundays, Trump said that the proposed deal Tikoks would transfer American assets from the Chinese parent company bytedance to US owner. He described the participants as prominent people and “American patriots”.
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“I think you’ll do a really good job,” said Trump, adding that Tikkok had helped him to expand support with young voters during the 2024 election campaign.
One of the proposed investor larry Ellison, the co-founder of the tech company Oracle-IT, is a prominent Republican donor. Lachlan Murdoch’s father Rupert has supported right causes and parties for decades, but has a complicated relationship with Trump, which is He is currently suing him.
The initiative would influence Trump’s allies in corporate America with around 170 million US users, one of the most frequently used apps that shape political and cultural debate.
Lachlan Murdoch, Managing Director of Fox Corp, recently consolidated control over his family’s media empire, which includes Fox News and Wall Street Journal after setting up a long -term legal dispute with his siblings. Trump said 94-year-old Rupert Murdoch could also be involved in the deal.
Murdoch’s media attract the right audience, but they occasionally came together with Trump. The US President’s lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal serves to defamate a July report, which combines him with the deceased financier and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The newspaper defended its reporting.
Other business figures mentioned by Trump include Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies, together with Ellison with discussions about Tiktok’s future.
According to the administration of the former US President Joe Biden, the US law passes his Tikok operations, whereby both Democrats and Republicans support legislation based on security concerns that Beijing could have access to the data of American users.
However, the Headlights on Teltok was also associated with the growing support of the Palestinians and the opposition to Israel among young Americans. Many pro-Israeli politicians accuse the popular app for shift.
Shortly after the beginning of the Israel War against Gaza, Trump’s State Secretary Marco Rubio called for a ban from Tiktok and described the app, which was coined on anti-Israel content.
Trump had proposed to ban Tikkok during his first term as US President, and in August 2020 signed two executive regulations that aimed to limit the app. However, the US President made a U-turn and promised to “save” the popular app during his re-election campaign of 2024.
Since then, the Trump government has bound negotiations on Tikok about wider trade talks with China.
China consistently denied the claims of US legislators that Beijing apps such as Tiktok collect personal data for the state.
