Elon Musk is being eyed by Chinese authorities as a potential buyer of TikTok. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Since its launch in 2016, video-sharing app Tik Tok – known as Douyin on the mainland – has ... an investigation by South China Morning Post found that children as young as nine were exposing ...

"Without U.S. approval, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval ... TikTok does not operate in China, where ByteDance instead offers Douyin, the Chinese sibling of TikTok that follows Beijing ...

In 2016 it launched video platform Douyin for the Chinese market ... Without U.S. approval, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars - maybe trillions.

TikTok, whose global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, is not a China-based company as the ... "Okay fine, I'll buy Tik Tok so it doesn't get banned." The YouTuber, who Forbes ...