Musk: I don’t plan to buy TikTok, I build my companies from scratch

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, announced that he has not made an offer to buy the popular TikTok app. He indicated that he usually focuses on building his companies from scratch.

Musk said, speaking remotely during an event in Germany: “I have not made an offer to buy TikTok. I don’t even know what I would do if I had TikTok.”

US President Donald Trump has previously expressed his openness to the idea of ​​Musk buying the Chinese-owned TikTok app as a solution to keep it open in the United States.

TikTok is subject to US law that requires it to sever ties with its Chinese owner ByteDance or face a ban in the United States.

US elected officials have justified this by the need to prevent Chinese authorities from accessing US user data or manipulating opinion in the United States.