Jimmy Donaldson – aka Mrbeast – He was cheerful as he said to his tens of millions of followers of Tictok about his offer to buy a platform.
“Maybe I would become a new executive director! I’m super excited!” Said Donaldson of a private jet. He then continued to pay 10,000 to five random new followers.
More than 73 million times from Monday has been viewed by the internet creator. Donaldson said he couldn’t share the details about his offer, but he promised, “Just know, it will be crazy.”
Donaldson is one of several courtiers who expressed interest in buying a Tictok, a wild popular social media platform that has become the subject of a fast political drama in the United States.
Last year, then President Joe Biden signed a law, which by January 19 gave Tiktok’s home company based in China until January 19 to sell the platform or face the ban in the United States.
Legislation dealt with concern about Tikict’s ties with the Chinese government and worrying that the application is as a risk of national security.
President Donald Trump floated the possibility of joint investment.
“I would like the United States to have 50% of the ownership position,” he said in the social place of truth on Sunday. “Working it, we’re preparing a tictok, we keep it in good hands and let it allow it [stay up]. “
Trump has since signed an executive command that allows the application to remain operating for another 75 days.
Earlier this month, Bloomberg reported that China was considering the sale of a tictoka Elon muskThe richest man in the world and the close ally of President Trump, who already owns the platform of social media X.
Sam Musk wrote On the X this week that, although he has long been against the prohibition of Tictok, “the current situation in which Tiktor is allowed to act in America, but X is not allowed to act in China is unbalanced. Something has to change.”
At a press conference on Tuesday, Trump asked the journalist if he would be open to buy a platform.
“I would be if he wanted to buy it, yes,” the president replied.
“I wish Larry buy it too,” Trump added, referring to the Oracle’s chairman Larry EllisonLongtime Trump’s fan who was on stage with him for a separate announcement.
Oracle is one of the main providers of the Tictok server, management Many data centers stored by billion platform video.
Last year, Oracle warned that a ban on Tiktoc could harm his job. The cloud computer giant was also a leading candidate for the purchase of the 2020 social media platform when Trump was trying to ban.
Biliana investor Frank McCourt He also expressed interest in Tictok, and for several months because of the media interviews on perspective.
McCourt said he wanted Tiktoc to deals with the technology supervised by the Project Liberty Institute, which he founded. He was critical of the practice of collecting data from social media companies.
The Liberty project bits for Tiktoc without its ownership algorithm. McCourt said CNBC this week that Project Liberty “is not interested in algorithm or Chinese technology,” even when he admitted that the platform “is worth less” without it.
Ultimately, President Trump is likely to play a big role in the selection of American customer Tictok.
“It will be a winner who is likely to be politically sympathetic to President Donald Trump,” said Professor Anupam Chander, of the Law on the Faculty of Law.
Prof. Chander said that the mutual ownership model of 50-50 does not coincide with the requirements of the law, which could make Trump press Congress to revise the law.
For now, the future of the platform remains in the limb.
Prof Chander said that the Biden administration made a “reckless mistake” by allowing the law to give a great control over who owns Tiktoc.
“It was a terrible idea to put a huge information platform in this political spin,” said Prof. Chander.
