Is Elon Musk Buying TikTok?

A TikTok ban will hit the US within days.

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Oh, TikTok, what a trail of woe you are leading.

The app is already banned in India and it’s in dispute with lawmakers in many more countries.

Fear not for our brave army of content-creating TikTokkers. Rumor has it that parent company ByteDance is mulling a TikTok sale to the darling of the right, Elon Musk.

TikTok is already rife with bots and misinformation, so it should be perfect for a free-speech absolutist like Musk.

I’ve no idea if the sale will go ahead or how Musk will translate his far-right algo bait for a manic short-form channel like TikTok.

Whatever happens, I’d wager TikTok will pop back up on the US app store sooner rather than later, perhaps post-Trump inauguration.

Too much money is at stake.

Frankly, I don’t care much what happens with TikTok.

I tried using TikTok for a few months last year.

I invested in a short-form program for creators and posed batch after batch of videos on TikTok. It felt like the thing to do, what with SEO traffic in the toilet.

I got lucky at first.