Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and the main advisor of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he has no interest in acquiring the operations of the Tiktok social networks in the United States, in comments published on Saturday.
“I have not presented an offer for Tiktok and I have no plan for what I would do if I had Tiktok,” Musk said in comments made through a video link in a German forum at the end of January that were launched in the weekend .
Tiktok faces a law of the United States that ordered the company to separate from its Chinese owner bytete or that otherwise is prohibited in the United States for national security concerns regarding the data collected to the Users.
In one of his first acts in office, Trump ordered a break to enforce the law that should have seen Tiktok effectively made in the country a day before assuming the position for a second mandate.
Shortly after, Trump said he would be open to Musk, the owner of the social media platform X, Tesla and a series of other companies, which buy the platform.
Musk, however, said he didn’t want to acquire the company.
“I don’t use Tiktok personally, so, you know, I’m not so familiar with that,” he said. “I’m not biting to acquire Tiktok.”
Musk bought the social networks giant Twitter, which renamed X, for $ 44 billion in 2022, insisting that he was doing it to safeguard “freedom of expression.”
Since their acquisition, rights activists warn that there has been an increase in hate discourse and misinformation on the platform.
Musk was one of Trump’s main financial sponsors in his presidential campaign, and heads the budget initiatives of the president of the United States.
Its so -called “Government Efficiency Department” (Doge) has attacked a variety of federal government agencies and regulators, with the apparent intention to close them and fire the staff, especially those who are not in line with Trump’s political agenda.
On Saturday, an American judge issued an emergency order that blocks the Musk government reform team to access personal and financial data for millions of Americans stored in the Department of the Treasury, according to judicial documents.
In the comments in the German forum, Musk also pointed to the initiatives of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), which are destined to support historically oppressed and deprived communities of their rights.
“Dei is simply renowned,” he said. “I am against racism and sexism, no matter who is directed.”
American officials have been running to promulgate Trump war against Dei in the federal bureaucracy: dismantling training initiatives, discarding subsidies and leaving hundreds of workers aside.
In Germany, Musk has expressed firm support for the AFD anti -immigrant party on the extreme right, a political taboo in a country whose Nazi past remains a sensitive issue.
