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Elon Musk recently said that “he is not biting the little to acquire Tiktok.”
Musk made those comments during an interview at the Welt Economic Summit on January 28. TO Interview video It was published today.
The interview occurred after President Donald Trump delayed a law that required the Bytee parent company to sell to Tiktok or see it forbidden in the United States. At that time, there were reports that the Chinese government was open to an agreement in which Musk (a Trump key ally would acquire the application. Trump even told reporters that he would like to see the president of Musk or Oracle Larry Ellison acquire Tiktok; It has also signed an executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund that can buy a participation in the application.
But Musk said he was not interested, struggling: “I have not made an offer for Tiktok.”
“I have no plan 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 useful or useful this algorithm? And what can we do to change the algorithm to make it more productive and, ultimately, it is beneficial for humanity?
He added that he does not “use Tiktok personally” and that “he is not so familiar with him.” And he described his acquisition of twitter (now x) as an anomaly in his career: “Usually, I build companies from scratch.”
Musk's comments about Tiktok arrived almost 20 minutes in the interview, which initially focused on his plans for his government efficiency department (Doge) under the Trump administration. Musk and his allies have subsequently taken control of federal agencies and obtained access to large confidential data toadiscos.
“Regarding the government, the challenge is really to overcome bureaucracy,” he said. “I think the bureaucracy is perhaps the penultimate battle of the boss. The last battle of the boss is to defeat entropy … the second hardest battle is to defeat the bureaucracy. This difficult is to improve the government. “
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