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Vance confident TikTok will be sold in US as deadline looms


Despite the increasing number of potential buyers, neither the app nor its Chinese owner have confirmed they will do a deal.

According to the New York Times, Amazon recently sent a letter to the US Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick expressing interest. A third last-minute bidder includes the man once called "the king of homemade porn" by the Sunday Times- British OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely. Another potential investor is Frank McCourt, who founded the Project Liberty organisation in 2021, which aims to give more power to internet users.

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