Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.

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Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.

With a critical deadline looming, TikTok is having a hard time finding a buyer to avoid being banned in the US by April 5. The popular short-video app has come under fire from US officials who say the Chinese government could use it for spying or propaganda.

Lawmakers in the United States have moved to force Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a US ban.

Amazon enters last-minute bid to buy TikTok, joining Microsoft and Walmart as Trump's US ban deadline approaches.

The U.S. government has yet to provide evidence of claims that the company was sharing U.S. user data with the Chinese government.

A big New York Times report dropped today alleging that the e-commerce giant Amazon put in a last-minute bid to purchase TikTok ahead of its latest ban extension ending on Saturday, April 5.