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Amazon wants to buy TikTok


TikTok‘s future in the US is once again uncertain. On April 5, President Trump’s extension to the ‘sell or be banned’ law expires, so if TikTok’s US operations aren’t sold by then, it will be banned again, as it was in January for a very brief few days when President Biden passed the baton to President Trump.

And now in the eleventh hour a new bidder is entering the fray: Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ behemoth has allegedly put in a last-minute offer, one which Trump Administration officials reportedly aren’t seriously considering. That’s an interesting twist for sure.

Amazon wants to buy TikTokAmazon wants to buy TikTok

Amazon has apparently approached Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about the offer. Amazon unsurprisingly declined to comment.

Other offers for TikTok have been put forth by a group which includes YouTuber MrBeast, another one including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and even Perplexity AI, which wants to integrate TikTok into its search engine. There’s also Oracle. All in all a pretty eclectic group of bidders.

President Trump has announced that he could extend the deadline for a deal once again if necessary, so perhaps nothing will happen this week. We’ll just have to wait and see.

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