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Real estate, sports, and now social media. On Wednesday, American billionaire Frank McCourt said he planned to create a consortium to get his hands on the American activities of the TikTok application.
The businessman thus responds to Joe Biden’s desire to force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to sell the American version of its application, in order to avoid any influence or espionage on the part of Beijing. The tenant of the White House thus signed a law this year threatening to ban the social network on American territory if it is not sold. A decision contested by ByteDance, which took the matter to court and which repeatedly repeats that it does not intend to sell its assets.