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Ever since our new president, Donald Trump, temporarily saved TikTok from a nationwide ban, Americans have been wondering which deep-pocketed businessman will throw his hat in the ring to buy the popular social media platform. Now we have a new challenger: viral influencer Jimmy Donaldson (aka MrBeast). “Okay, I’ll buy Tik Tok so it’s not banned,” Donaldson said Posted in X last week. “Definitely, I’ve had a lot of billionaires approach me since I tweeted this, let’s see if we can do it,” he said.
Donaldson’s attorney on Tuesday CNN was informed that the reality star is serious about buying the social media platform, and that Donaldson is now part of a group of US investors trying to buy the site. Law firm Paul Hastings, which represents the group, said the proposal comes in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold an earlier law that would have forced TikTok to be sold or banned in the United States.
The whole business revolves around Donaldson making total sense creating brain-dead viral content— would love to have the most responsible platform for spreading mindless viral content. Buying TikTok would effectively hand it an infotainment monopoly, essentially the equivalent of winning the lottery for the world’s most powerful influencer.
The reason we’re in this mess to begin with is because last April Joe Biden signed the bill into law that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to either sell its app to the US company or face a nationwide ban. What commentators have noted political fraud Given how popular TikTok is among young voters, it was. Back in the White House this week, Trump easily capitalized on Biden’s unpopular decision. Trump signed an executive order and gave away the TikTok bill 75 day extension windowduring which time ByteDance will be allowed to find a suitable buyer, provided America retains 50 percent ownership of the platform. Trump has already said he would be open to other prominent people buying the site, including fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Larry Ellison.
However, there are signs that Trump may support the Donaldson deal. Bloomberg reported Brad Bondi, the brother of Trump’s pick for Attorney General Pam Bondi, represents the investor group behind Donaldson’s bid to acquire the platform. Trump and Bondi have a history together. Bondi was part of the president’s legal team that helped consolidate the embattled Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (which owns the social media platform). Truth Social) with blank check company Bloomberg writes last March. The contract was extensively reviewed As a salvation for Trump when his legal problems were at their worst. Bondi previously represented Elon Musk in 2018 when the tech billionaire was charged with securities fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. previously reported.
Why the US has moved so aggressively to ban children’s favorite social media platform is not yet fully understood. The dominant story US officials were concerned about the platform’s ties to China and wanted to cut ties between the company and its geopolitical enemy. However, an alternative theory has been that TikTok provides a service popular vector Pro-Palestinian activists can turn America’s children against its special ally in the Middle East by spreading evidence of Israeli atrocities. Mitt Romney said last year that when you give the news The reason we have so much support for shutting down TikTok is because of the “huge” number of Palestinians compared to other social media sites. Moment He writes in Time magazine blamed a surge in anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses in the United States last year.
Since TikTok’s resurrection, there have been rumors that the platform is now cracking down on pro-Palestinian content. However, these rumors may be slightly exaggerated. 404 Media research published on Wednesday found that the site did not appear to consistently suppress pro-Palestinian content. The site told reporters that the pro-Palestinian content did not violate its terms of service.
If the goal of TikTok’s U.S. takeover is indeed to stop the flow of pro-Palestinian content to U.S. audiences, the behavior of other American tech companies will set a precedent for that. Human Rights Watch’s recent report on Meta found that the company was practicing “systematic censorship of Palestinian content on Instagram and Facebook.” X and YouTube They also faced their own disputes over the Israeli-Palestinian content.
