China Reportedly Considers Elon Musk As Potential TikTok Buyer -- Here's Everything We Know

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Additionally, Trump could allow TikTok to go down and bring the app back to app stores and the internet with a one-time, three-month extension that would potentially give time to help facilitate a sale of TikTok.
49% : U.S. officials have claimed the Chinese Communist Party could use the app to spy on Americans or influence public discourse.
48% : However, Forbes' reporting has revealed that ByteDance has used TikTok to spy on journalists and TikTok mishandled sensitive data, including financial information, Social Security numbers and personal contacts of creators, advertisers, celebrities and politicians.
41% : The co-founder of global trading firm Susquehanna International Group, which owns about 15% of ByteDance, Yass owned a $33 billion stake in TikTok as of this March and has financially backed conservative lawmakers opposing the ban, such as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R.-Ky., donating $24 million and $32,200 to each, respectively, according to The Wall Street Journal.
32% : Former Justice Department official Alan Rozenshtein wrote in a Lawfare op-ed that Trump could also lobby Congress to repeal the ban, though in doing so he would have to overcome the law's bipartisan support.
16% : He reportedly met with Trump and became possibly the biggest influence behind Trump's switch from attempting to ban the app to later opposing its removal..
13% : However, even if Trump could ask the Supreme Court not to push for the ban, the move may lack the impact his administration would aim for, as Apple, Google and Oracle could still drop TikTok since they would risk financial penalties if they kept the app online and Trump later reconsidered his position on TikTok.

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