By Dawn Chmielewski, Anna Tong and Greg Bensinger
April 3, 2025 – 2:12 AM PDT
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(Reuters) – As the weekend deadline for TikTok to find a buyer approaches, bidders for the short-video social media site are piling up.
Amazon (AMZN.O) and, separately, a consortium led by OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely are the latest to throw their hats into the ring for TikTok. The site faces an April 5 deadline to reach a deal to find a non-Chinese buyer under threat of being banned from the United States.
U.S. officials have raised security concerns over the app’s ties to China, which TikTok and owner ByteDance have denied. Trump administration officials are meeting on Wednesday to discuss the various options for TikTok.
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