Elon Musk said he has no interest in the Tiktok acquisition
Elon Musk recently said he “hasn’t munched a bit to get Tiktok.”
Musk made these statements in an interview at the Welt Economic Summit on January 28th. Interview Video It was released today.
The interview came after President Donald Trump delayed the law Requires that the parent company’s ordinance be confirmed to be banned in the US by selling Tiktoc. That was reported at the time The Chinese government was open Musk (a major Trump alliance) to trade to get apps. Trump even told reporters That he wants to see Musk or Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison win Tiktok. He too I signed an executive order Create a sovereign wealth fund where you can purchase shares in the app.
However, Musk claimed he was not interested and said, “I have never bid for Tiktok.”
“We have no plans for what to do if there was Tiktok,” he said in an interview. “I think I’m going to look at the algorithm and try to decide. How useful is this algorithm, and how useful it is? And to shift the algorithm to be more productive and ultimately beneficial to humanity. What can we do?”
He added that he “doesn’t use Tiktok personally,” and that he “is not familiar with it.” He then described the acquisition of Twitter (now X) as an outrageous in his career. “I usually build a company from scratch.”
Musk’s comments on Tiktok came nearly 20 minutes after the interview. This initially focused on government efficiency (DOGE) plans under the Trump administration. Musk and his allies later managed federal agencies; Gained access to a large majority of sensitive data.
“When it comes to government, the real challenge is overcoming bureaucracy,” he said. “I think bureaucracy is probably the penultimate boss battle. The ultimate boss battle is to defeat entropy… The second most difficult battle is to defeat bureaucracy. That’s it. It’s how difficult it is to improve the government.”