From Elon Musk, MrBeast and Oracle’s Larry Ellison to Netflix and US govt: Suitors who can help TikTok avoid a US ban

Popular social media platform TikTok, backed by Chinese company ByteDance, which received a nearly two-and-a-half month lifeline from US President Donald Trump on January 19, is scrambling to find a new buyer for its US operations to avoid a ban.

TikTok was briefly banned on January 19 over concerns of a potential threat to the national security of the US due to its link with China.