Article 6MBCA Anyone want to buy TikTok?

Anyone want to buy TikTok?

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David Pierce
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It was going to happen, and then it wasn't going to happen, and then it happened. The United States Congress passed a bill that would either ban TikTok or force it to be sold, and President Joe Biden signed it.

So... what now? TikTok could sue, and win, and go back to normal. TikTok's owner, ByteDance, could just decide to shut it down and move on. Or it could sell TikTok US. Those are really the only three outcomes, and we have a year or less to figure out which it's going to be.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we discuss all the possible outcomes for TikTok. Then we try to figure out which companies might buy the platform - and which definitely won't, despite desperately wanting to. There's no easy, obvious choice, but there are a...

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