James "Jimmy" Donaldson, known as MrBeast on YouTube, made an offhand comment to X this week, saying he'd buy TikTok so it doesn't get banned.

The platform is in need of saving in the United States, where approximately 170 million people have TikTok accounts. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that will ban the platform on Jan. 19 unless TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance divests its U.S. operations.

MrBeast is part of a growing list of individuals and businesses that have expressed interesting in purchasing TikTok.

TikTok has become one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, but its future in the United States is uncertain. Lawmakers have raised concerns over data privacy and national security,

TikTok is about to be banned in the United States after the government set new rules for the app's operation in the country, measures that the Chinese company ByteDance did not comply with. O post MrBeast offers to buy TikTok to prevent the app’s ban in the US apareceu primeiro em TechBreak.