American billionaire wants to buy TikTok - but not its ‘highly addictive algorithm’

TikTok would need to create a lot of new infrastructure that it would lose from its parent company in a potential spinoff."

DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria said

The price would also be limited by the accelerated process and need to buy the entire franchise, as opposed an IPO, which significantly limits the number of potential buyers,

Luria was quoted as saying by Forbes

Without the algorithm it’s $40 billion to $50 billion,

Ives was quoted as saying by The Associated Press

Okay, fine, I’ll buy it

MrBeast joins the bid

Even if the U.S. bans TikTok specifically, Bytedance — the parent company — is already migrating users to a competing very similar app that it also owns called Lemon8,

Josh Constine of the venture capital firm SignalFire told CNN

Put the power in people’s hands to make those choices” around privacy, content use, censorship and moderation

McCourt says