Chinese owner denies it’s willing to sell TikTok as US ban looms | CNN Business

Hong Kong CNN  — 

TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance said Thursday that it has no plans to sell the social media platform, its first official response on the fraught issue since President Joe Biden signed a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban of the wildly popular app.

“Foreign media reports that ByteDance is exploring the sale of TikTok are untrue,” the Beijing-based company said in a statement on Toutiao, a news aggregation app that it owns and is popular in mainland China.

“ByteDance doesn’t have any plan to sell TikTok,” it said.

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