After years of rejecting the idea of a sale of TikTok’s US assets to an American buyer in order to avert a ban, China and ByteDance may have found an owner they could live with: Elon Musk.

Business magnate Elon Musk is the richest man in the world, starting 2025 with a net worth of around $425 billion. That dwarfs the net worth of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, who weighs in at around $241 billion.

Germany's foreign and defence ministries said on Wednesday they would refocus their public communications away from Elon Musk's X, with the defence department saying it had become increasingly "unhappy" with developments at the social media platform.

The German Defence Ministry is suspending its accounts on the social media platform X, which has been the subject of widespread criticism since its purchase by tech billionaire Elon Musk. The ministry said it would no longer actively post on the platform for the foreseeable future,

Elon Musk’s "meddling" in politics and recent changes at Meta to eliminate fact-checking make Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s promise to defund the CBC even more consequential, said Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge.