TikTok’s fate in the United States hangs in the balance, with the video-sharing app facing a federal ban unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divests its stake. As app users wait to see what happens,

Social media influencer MrBeast says he'd buy TikTok to keep it from being banned. Elon Musk reportedly is interested in buying the app as well.

Donaldson posted a jokey message on X on January 13 that read, "Okay fine, I'll buy Tik Tok so it doesn't get banned." A day later,

Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has teamed up with Employer.com CEO Jesse Tinsley and other investors in an all-cash offer for the social platform.

It’s not clear if TikTok’s owner ByteDance has seriously considered the offer, Bloomberg reported. Others floated as potential buyers include Elon Musk, Amazon, Oracle, and a syndicate headed by billionaire Frank McCourt.

MrBeast joins a long list of interested TikTok buyers including billionaire Elon Musk and Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Billionaire Frank McCourt, who runs the internet advocacy group Project Liberty has also publicly expressed his interest in the opportunity,

MrBeast has seen incredible growth in his TikTok following after revealing his plans to buy the platform amid its ban.

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The platform is in need of saving in the United States, where approximately 170 million people have TikTok accounts. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that will ban the platform on Jan. 19 unless TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance divests its U.S. operations.

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