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. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity,

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.

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The Information reports that later today, Trump plans to announce a plan for “TikTok America,” a new company with 50 percent ownership by unnamed new US investors, a one-third stake for existing ByteDance investors, and a 19.9 percent share for ByteDance. It would apparently license TikTok’s algorithm from ByteDance.

However, key parties involved in negotiations on a potential TikTok sale “do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously,” according to The New York Times.

Amazon has made a last-minute bid to buy TikTok as the app nears an April 5 deadline to cut ties with its Chinese owner or face a U.S. ban, according to a New York Times article published on April 2.

Amazon’s surprise bid comes amid a flurry of activity from other interested buyers, including Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz, Blackstone and even a consortium backed by social media influencers like MrBeast. Some appear to have a better shot than others.

Amazon and AppLovin reportedly submitted bids to acquire TikTok, ahead of a U.S. ban set to go into effect Saturday if no deal is reached with the app's Chinese parent company.

Amazon.com has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said, in an 11th-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to