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Steven Mnuchin, the former treasury secretary and film financier, says that he’s getting an investor group together to try to buy TikTok.
His comments to CNBC follow the House of Representatives’ overwhelming passage of a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the popular app or face a ban on distribution in the United States.
“I think it should be sold. I understand the technology. It’s a great business, and I’m going to put together a group to buy TikTok,” Mnuchin told CNBC’s Squawk Box today. He did not indicate which investors would be involved in an effort to buy the app, but he said that “it would be a combination of investors. It would be no one investor that controlled this.”
The bill cleared the House on Wednesday 352-65, drawing rare bipartisan support from leaders and rank and file members of both parties. The legislation now heads to the Senate, but there’s been no indication from Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) of timing for when it would be considered.
Mnuchin supports the legislation, even though his former boss, Donald Trump, has indicated that he opposes it. During Trump’s presidency, Mnuchin was a key figure in the administration’s effort to force ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban, but his executive order was blocked in the courts.
“This should be owned by U.S. businesses,” Mnuchin told CNBC. “There’s no way that the Chinese would ever let a U.S. company own something like this in China.”
TikTok has lobbied heavily against the bill, and CEO Shou Chew posted a video on Wednesday arguing that the legislation “gives more power to a handful of other social media companies. It will also takes billions of dollars out of the pockets of creators and small
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Steven Mnuchin, former treasury secretary under President Trump and Hollywood producer, said he’s assembling an investor group to acquire TikTok — although there’s no clear indication he could swing a deal with TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, to buy the popular app. Mnuchin’s comments come a day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a fast-tracked bill — by a wide margin — that would effectively ban TikTok unless China-based ByteDance sold off its ownership stake.
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Joe Biden said that he would sign a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban of the popular app.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor TikTok, the massively popular video app owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, apparently has an ally in Donald Trump. The former U.S. president expressed opposition to a national ban of TikTok not for, say, First Amendment reasons but because such a move would likely boost the fortunes of Meta’s Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.