As the clock ticks down on the Trump administration’s deadline for China’s TikTok to find a U.S. buyer, e-commerce giant Amazon has thrown its hat into the ring, making a last-minute bid for the popular social media app.
NBC News reports that Amazon has emerged as a potential suitor for TikTok, the embattled social media platform facing a ban in the United States unless it can find a non-Chinese buyer by Saturday, April 5. The bid, which arrived via a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, comes just days before the deadline set by President Donald Trump.
The fate of TikTok in the U.S. has been uncertain since last year when then-President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation forcing its Chinese-based owner,
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