Steven Mnuchin, former Secretary of State for the Treasury, wants to buy TikTok. The former head of Goldman Sachs wants to bring together investors to buy the social network.
The United States Congress could push its parent company, the Chinese ByteDance, to sell it. The House of Representatives adopted a text on Wednesday which, in the event of a favorable vote in the Senate and promulgation by American President Joe Biden, would force Bytedance to sell TikTok, under penalty of banning it in the U.S.