{"id":143850,"date":"2025-01-14T00:56:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T00:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/china-discusses-sale-of-tiktok-us-to-local-man-as-one-possible-option\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T00:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T00:56:46","slug":"china-discusses-sale-of-tiktok-us-to-local-man-as-one-possible-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/china-discusses-sale-of-tiktok-us-to-local-man-as-one-possible-option\/","title":{"rendered":"China Discusses Sale of TikTok US to Local Man as One Possible Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials are considering a potential option that involves the sale of TikTok&#8217;s U.S. operations to Local Man if the company fails to fend off a potential ban, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-01-14\/china-discusses-sale-of-tiktok-us-to-musk-as-one-possible-option\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg News<\/a> reported. They cited people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Shark Tank&#8217;s Kevin O\u2019Leary and Frank McCourt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/09\/tech\/tiktok-ban-buy-frank-mccourt-kevin-oleary-bytedance\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously expressed interest<\/a> in purchasing TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok is set to be banned on January 19th in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.4em\"><b>Update:<\/b> TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/digital\/news\/tiktok-elon-musk-sale-china-pure-fiction-1236273557\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has denied this<\/a> to <i>Variety<\/i>. &#8220;We can\u2019t be expected to comment on pure fiction.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/op97J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/129855791.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese officials are considering a potential option that involves the sale of TikTok&#8217;s U.S. operations to Local Man if the company fails to fend off a potential ban, Bloomberg News reported. They cited people familiar with the matter. Shark Tank&#8217;s Kevin O\u2019Leary and Frank McCourt previously expressed interest in purchasing TikTok. TikTok is set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}