Elon Musk recently declared that he “did not pass the bit to acquire Tiktok”.
Musk made these remarks during an interview at the Welt economic summit on January 28. interview video has been published today.
The interview came after President Donald Trump delayed a law demanding that the parent company Bytedance Vende Tiktok or the prohibited way in the United States. At the time, there were reports that The Chinese government was open to an agreement in which Musk (a key Trump ally) acquires the application. Trump even told journalists that he would like to see Musk or the president of Oracle Larry Ellison acquire Tiktok; It is also signed a decree To create a sovereign fund that could buy participation in the application.
But Musk said he was not interested, categorically declaring: “I did not make an offer for Tiktok.”
“I have no plan for what I would do if I had Tiktok,” he said during the interview. “I suppose I would look at the algorithm and I would try to decide: how useful or useful?” And what can we do to move the algorithm to be more productive and ultimately be beneficial for humanity? »»
He added that he does not use Tiktok personally “and is” not so familiar with “. And he described his acquisition of Twitter (now X) as an anomaly in his career:” I generally build companies in from zero. “
Musk’s comments on Tiktok took place nearly 20 minutes in the interview, which was initially concentrated on its plans for its government ministry (DOGE) under the Trump administration. Musk and his allies subsequently took control of federal agencies and Access to large sensitive data trox.
“Regarding the government, the challenge is really to overcome bureaucracy,” he said. “I think bureaucracy may be the penultimate battle of Boss. The battle of the ultimate boss beats entropy … The second most difficult battle is to defeat bureaucracy. It is how difficult it is to improve the government. »»
