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Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

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Re: Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

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Post by bgwalter »

shihab wrote: post #28
Calavar wrote: post #15

The Gulf States are seeing absolutely excellent ROI for the 1b they pooled together for a 747.

That was government of qatar, this is Abu Dhabi (UAE). They had a diplomatic crisis, with full-scale blockade not so long ago.

UAE was engaged in crypto dealings instead:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chi...

"Earlier this year, World Liberty, the crypto firm run by the Trumps and Witkoffs, announced an agreement with an investment firm backed by the ruling family of the U.A.E. The Emirati firm would conduct a $2 billion transaction using World Liberty’s digital coins, a deal that would provide a windfall to the Trump and Witkoff families."

Re: Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

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Post by quickthrowman »

coldpie wrote: post #20
FridayoLeary wrote: post #3

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> letting china potentially use tiktok to spread anti western propoganda Lol if you bought into this. All the anti-Tiktok stuff & forced sale is just a gift to American businesses that were struggling to compete.

Larry the Lawnmower, to be specific.

Re: Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

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Post by [deleted] »

mandeepj wrote: post #19
addicted wrote: post #11

For context, SNAP is valued at $14Bn. This is a straight up giveaway to friends. Even dictators in other countries don't make it so obvious because they're worried their populations would revolt, which says a lot about the American voter today.

> This is a straight up giveaway to friends. None of Tiktok's executives were present, and China has not confirmed the sale. So, I don't think clown's EO means anything. He's living in his own la la land :-)

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Re: Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

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Post by jasonlotito »

baxtr wrote: post #37

> MGX, chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will take 15% stake, with social media firm valued at $14bn So they value the most attention owing social media at a mere $14b? As reference: Meta has a total market cap of around $1.8 T.

For what it's worth, this is just TikTok US, not TikTok as a whole. Make of that what you will.

Re: Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

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Post by mandeepj »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #34
Calavar wrote: post #15

The Gulf States are seeing absolutely excellent ROI for the 1b they pooled together for a 747.

OT but i think the 747 story deserves a bit more nuance. First of all to be clear i'm dismayed by the idea. It's not great optics that Trump wants to keep the plane (library force one?) . Even accepting it in the first place is also odd. Add to that, using it as Air Force One seems to be impractical. BUT, there is precedent for this move. They gifted an even more expensive plane to Erdogan. From what i understand the…

> this is a way of putting lateral pressure on boeing

Their two 737 max planes crashes, killed 346 people. I think they are immune to any pressure at this point.

Re: Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

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Post by FridayoLeary »

ceejayoz wrote: post #38
FridayoLeary wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OT but i think the 747 story deserves a bit more nuance. First of all to be clear i'm dismayed by the idea. It's not great optics that Trump wants to keep the plane (library force one?) . Even accepting it in the first place is also odd. Add to that, using it as Air Force One seems to be impractical. BUT, there is precedent for this move. They gifted an even more expensive plane to Erdogan. From what i understand the…

> BUT, there is precedent for this move. They gifted an even more expensive plane to Erdogan. "We gave a huge gift to an authoritarian leader" is indeed precedent; not a great one, though.

Point is it looks less like a tribute you might offer to a powerful emperor and more like an ordinary plane giveaway.

Re: Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

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Post by bamboozled »

razster wrote: post #27
loopdoend wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a tool to control people they don't want to shut it down.

I only use TT for my 3D modeling, Blender3D tricks and motion graphics. I have all political options disabled and have blocked all news. So far not a single political ideology has popped up on my fyp. Ads are also 0. Enjoying it so far. Fine tuned for my needs.

and you are what, 0.5% of people that use it and do that?

Re: Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

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Post by sentinelsignal »

karaterobot wrote: post #36

The ideal scenario isn't the government forcing a sale of TikTok for political reasons. The ideal is that people stop using TikTok because they realize it's not good for them, but I guess I don't see that happening. Instead we'll just continue scrolling while wondering why we're so unhappy and angry all the time.

Unfortunately you're right. Including the last part.
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