{"id":896017,"date":"2025-01-15T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=896017"},"modified":"2025-01-15T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:23:43","slug":"tiktok-dismisses-report-of-sale-to-elon-musk-calls-it-pure-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/15\/tiktok-dismisses-report-of-sale-to-elon-musk-calls-it-pure-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok dismisses report of sale to Elon Musk, calls it \u2019pure fiction\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has strongly dismissed reports suggesting that it may sell its US business to billionaire Elon Musk, calling the claims \u201cpure fiction.\u201d This comes in response to a Bloomberg News report, which indicated that Chinese officials, amid growing concerns over a potential US ban, were exploring the idea of selling TikTok\u2019s American operations to the owner of social media platform X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>TikTok, owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, has been embroiled in a lengthy battle with US lawmakers over national security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has strongly dismissed reports suggesting that it may sell its US business to billionaire Elon Musk, calling the claims \u201cpure fiction.\u201d This comes in response to a Bloomberg News report, which indicated that Chinese officials, amid growing concerns over a potential US ban, were exploring the idea of selling TikTok\u2019s American operations to the owner of social media platform X (formerly Twitter). TikTok, owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, has been embroiled in a lengthy battle with US lawmakers over national security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}