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For what it's worth, this is just TikTok US, not TikTok as a whole. Make of that what you will.
still looks small if simplifying and counting just by global population would be 340/8100*1800 = ~$75B. Besides US market is more profitable.
> still looks small if simplifying and counting just by global population
Yes, I agree, if you ignore everything except one single number, I can see how it can be confusing.
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You replace china with a directorate with a (possibly different) propaganda goal. Don't know if that will be any better, safer or less evil.
Exactly my point. Hypothetically, even if the level of propoganda stays the same, at least it will be promoting western interests that may be harmful to us or may not. With Chinese propoganda you can be fairly certain their interests are in strengthening their own position and weakening ours. Anyway the western propoganda machine to the extent it exists is far more fragmented and weaker then the Chinese. In short i t…
The Gulf States are seeing absolutely excellent ROI for the 1b they pooled together for a 747.
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This is the emoluments clause: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.[5] And the reason they put that there is the obvious one: this is as corrupt as corrupt gets.
More what you'd call "guidelines"...
> 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.
Forget Meta's market cap, does anyone think Zuckerberg wouldn't have paid 20 billion for Tiktok USA ?
Just so corrupt and to even call it a sweetheart deal is outrageous.
I thought it should just be banned in the US. The idea we are basically strong arming a whole nation and stealing a company at a bullshit valuation is completely insane.
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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 Tru…
The biggest benefactor here is Meta. There's no way TikTok will remain a dominant social platform in the US amidst all the political meddling and so many high profile investors with competing interests. This is likely also why Meta announced that they are overhauling Instagram to make Reels and recommendations the default experience - https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/instagram-overhaul-app-num... . Just as with Thre…
We could be spending all this effort on curing diseases...how stupid we can be.
The biggest benefactor here is Meta. There's no way TikTok will remain a dominant social platform in the US amidst all the political meddling and so many high profile investors with competing interests. This is likely also why Meta announced that they are overhauling Instagram to make Reels and recommendations the default experience - https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/instagram-overhaul-app-num... . Just as with Thre…
We could be spending all this effort on curing diseases...how stupid we can be.
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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 Tru…