Elon Musk recently said that “it is not chomping on the track to get tiktok”.
Musk made these observations during an interview at the Welt Economic summit on January 28th. Video of the interview published today.
The interview came after President Donald Trump delayed a law requiring the parent company byTedance to sell Tiktok or ban it in the United States. At that time, there were reports that the Chinese government was open to an agreement in which Musk (a major Trump ally) would acquire the implementation. Trump also told reporters that he would like to see President Musk or Oracle Larry Ellison to get Tiktok. He has also signed an executive order to create a dominant fund that could buy a share in the application.
But Musk claimed he was not interested in him, stating categorically: “I haven’t bid for Tiktok.”
“I have no plan for what I would do if I had tiktok,” he said in the interview. “I guess I would see the algorithm and try to decide: How useful or useful is this algorithm? And what can we do to shift the algorithm to be more productive and ultimately beneficial to humanity?”
He added that he does not “use Tiktok personally” and is not “familiar with it”. And he described the acquisition of Twitter (now X) as an abnormality in his career: “I usually build companies from scratch.”
Musk’s comments on Tiktok came for almost 20 minutes in the interview, which initially focused on his plans for the efficiency of the Ministry of Government (Doge) under the administration of Trump. Musk and his allies have then taken control of federal organizations and have gained access to large troves sensitive data.
“As far as the government is concerned, the challenge is really to overcome bureaucracy,” he said. “I think bureaucracy is perhaps the penultimate battle of the boss. The final battle of the boss defeats entropy … The second most difficult battle is the victory of bureaucracy. This is how difficult it is to improve the government.”
