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OnlyFans founder leads bid for TikTok's US operations amid looming deadline
Tim Stokely, founder of OnlyFans, has teamed up with social media startup Zoop and the Hbar Foundation to bid for TikTok's US operations, as the platform faces a deadline of April 5 to sell or face a ban. Zoop's CEO RJ Phillips confirmed that the sale process is managed by the White House, not ByteDance. Other bidders include Amazon and a consortium of Oracle and Blackstone, while a proposal for ByteDance to retain TikTok's algorithm would need Chinese government approval.