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April 3, 2025

Amazon's last-minute bid for TikTok comes as a US ban on the platform is set to take effect Saturday

By AAMER MADHANI
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.

The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Amazon offer was made in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.


 
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