New Contender Emerges In Race To Purchase TikTok

 The deadline for China’s ByteDance to divest its U.S. TikTok operations is quickly approaching.

According to reports, Amazon has made a last-minute bid for the popular social media app.

NBC News reports:

The bid, first reported by The New York Times, arrived this week, via a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Given the last-minute timing, days before a Saturday deadline to stave off a ban of the app in the U.S., the bid is not being treated as serious, said the source, who was granted anonymity to share details of private negotiations.

A spokesperson for Amazon declined to comment. A representative for Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

President Donald Trump was expected to weigh TikTok offers Wednesday during an Oval Office meeting with Vance, Lutnick and other high-ranking administration officials. Trump has tapped Vance and national security adviser Michael Waltz to lead the effort to resolve TikTok’s fate.

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Per Investor’s Business Daily:

TikTok is available for American users under a temporary reprieve from a 2024 law that bans the short-video app unless the China-based ByteDance divests ownership. Trump delayed enforcement of the ban for 75 days on his first day in office, Jan. 20, allowing TikTok to restart operations for its more than 170 million U.S. users after a brief shutdown.

Oracle (ORCL) has been seen by Wall Street analysts as the likely favorite to take over TikTok’s U.S. operations, with backing from new and existing U.S. investors.

Amazon sent a letter expressing interest in TikTok in a recent letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to the New York Times. The parties involved in TikTok’s negotiations “do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously,” the report said.

Amazon stock was up 1.6% at 195.27 on the stock market today. Shares pushed higher following the New York Times report. Amazon stock has been slumping since early February.

TikTok operates an e-commerce platform that relies on its short-video app to power sales. Amazon would “make strategic sense” as a TikTok buyer given the strong ties between social media and online shopping, Morgan Stanley analysts argued late last year. Amazon has an existing advertising partnership with TikTok.

One hurdle could be that Amazon is already under antitrust scrutiny.

https://100percentfedup.com/new-contender-emerges-race-purchase-tiktok/?

BREAKING: Massive International P*do Network Spanning 30 Countries Shut Down, Many Arrests

• I have tremendous news to announce!

A massive, international child sex pedo network has just been raided and shut down!

The network spanned over 30+ countries and dozens of arrests have already been made.

BUSTED🚨: A massive international pedophile network spanning across over 30 countries was shut down, and dozens of arrests were made relating to child pornography, the Europol police agency announced on Wednesday.

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation said that the Darknet child porn platform “Kidflix” has been shut down under the direction of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office in Germany.

Europol said that the platform had an estimated 1.8 million users throughout the world, with investigations being coordinated across 35 counties.

So far, 79 people have been arrested and nearly 1,400 further suspects have been identified, over one hundred of whom were located in Germany, broadcaster NTV reports.

The platform, which was created in 2021, is said to have been one of the largest of its kind in the world and the largest to date to have existed in Europe.

Hopefully this is only the start!

Wipe every last one of them off the face of the Earth!

Breitbart had more details on the raids:

A massive international pedophile network spanning across over 30 countries was shut down, and dozens of arrests were made relating to child pornography, the Europol police agency announced on Wednesday.

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation said that the Darknet child porn platform “Kidflix” has been shut down under the direction of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office in Germany.

Europol said that the platform had an estimated 1.8 million users throughout the world, with investigations being coordinated across 35 counties.

So far, 79 people have been arrested and nearly 1,400 further suspects have been identified, over one hundred of whom were located in Germany, broadcaster NTV reports.

The platform, which was created in 2021, is said to have been one of the largest of its kind in the world and the largest to date to have existed in Europe.

According to the investigators, the site had over 91,000 child porn videos before it was shut down, with an average of three and half videos being uploaded to the site every hour. In exchange for paying a fee to the site, users were able to stream and upload videos of child sex abuse.

The international investigation spearheaded by Europol began in 2022, which culminated last month when thousands of electronic devices were seized, the site’s servers in Germany and the Netherlands were shut down, and 79 people were arrested.

Europol said that those arrested were not only accused of watching or uploading child pornography, but some were also suspected of having actually carried out the abuse of children themselves.

In related news:

Gee, I wonder why….

Think!  Think!

What has possibly changed in Germany over the last 5-10 years?

What could it be?

Oh yeah…..this!

https://wltreport.com/2025/04/02/breaking-massive-international-pdo-network-spanning-30-countries/

Big Balls To The Rescue: DOGE Saves A Terabyte Of Data Destroyed By Exiting USIP Employees

 I've never heard anything good about the United States Institute for Peace.

It's been in bed with neocons, coupmeisters, and the Soros color revolution crowd for years. The quasi-government agency that runs like a private NGO is always sneaky and non-transparent.

So it didn't surprise me a bit to learn that USIP showed unusual resistance to anyone poking into their spending from DOGE.

They even called the cops on DOGE, only to get arrested and hauled off themselves:

And they seem to have had a siphoning game going on:

According to a hostile, biased report from Newsweek:

Elon Musk has accused the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) of deleting a terabyte of financial data to "cover their crimes."

Musk reposted a claim from the Conservative page 'amuse' on X (formerly Twitter) which stated that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had found USIP contracts going to Afghanistan's former chief of protocol, who had been a member of the Taliban, and to the Iraqi League for Youth.

Musk wrote on X: "They deleted a terabyte of financial data to cover their crimes, but they don't understand technology, so we recovered it."

Nothing they did ever had the slightest relationship to promoting "peace."

They had an opaque structure that was an invitation to corruption:

The most vivid and satisfying aspect of this story is that the USIP characters tried to destroy data to hide their acts -- and ran into BigBalls, or someone like him at DOGE, who quietly recovered the data they tried to destroy.

Sometimes, the good guys really do win, and for the most embarrassing of reasons for the bad guys -- they didn't know tech like Elon's team knows tech.

Now their chief may be facing criminal charges based on this bid to avoid accountability.

What were they hiding? It must have been something pretty big. But whatever it was, it's satisfying to know that they need to respect the will of the people who pay their paychecks and bankroll their slush funds, and like any NGO, need to provide a minimum of accountability with no record destruction.

One can only hope that they will be made an example of, if for nothing else, to deter the others.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/big-balls-rescue-doge-saves-terabyte-data-destroyed-exiting-usip-employees