Charli & Dixie D\u2019Amelio\u2019s dad wants to buy TikTok amid ban threats Instagram: marcdamelioCharli & Dixie D\u2019Amelio\u2019s father Marc says he is putting together a group of investors to buy TikTok amid threats of the app\u2019s ban from the US government. Over the last few years, various members of the US government have made it clear that they are interested in potentially banning TikTok from being accessed across the country. Citing ownership ties to the Chinese Government, US officials fear that parent company ByteDance is selling user data to China, creating a potential security risk. In mid-March 2023, The US issued their latest threat to ByteDance \u2014 sell the app or get banned \u2014 and Marc D\u2019Amelio is looking to buy it. Marc D\u2019Amelio is assembling investors to buy TikTok On March 18, 2023, Marc shared his interest in purchasing the short-form video platform in a tweet on his profile. \u201cI am putting together a group of investors to pursue the purchase of TikTok,\u201d he said. At the time of writing, his tweet has been viewed over 50,000 times with dozens of replies to his post. It\u2019s unknown who the investors he\u2019s found so far are, so we\u2019ll have to wait to see if there are any other big names in the mix, like his famous daughters Charli and Dixie D\u2019Amelio. Charli and Dixie are known as platform pioneers, quickly becoming two of the most followed creators on TikTok in just a few short years thanks to their various dance trends, music, appearances in TV shows, and more. Whether or not their dad can purchase the platform solely depends on if ByteDance is willing to sell its stakes in the app \u2014 and their plans haven\u2019t been announced just yet. We\u2019ll be sure to update you on whether or not TikTok will get banned, but in the meantime head over to our entertainment section for more news and other viral stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charli & Dixie D\u2019Amelio\u2019s dad wants to buy TikTok amid ban threats Instagram: marcdamelioCharli & Dixie D\u2019Amelio\u2019s father Marc says he is putting together a group of investors to buy TikTok amid threats of the app\u2019s ban from the US government. Over the last few years, various members of the US government have made it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}