Elon Musk Says He Doesn’t Want to Buy TikTok’s US Business (1)

Elon Musk said he isn’t interested in buying TikTok, the popular social video app the US has tried to ban over national security concerns with its Chinese owner Bytedance Ltd.

He made the comments — his first on the topic of him buying TikTok — at a conference in Germany hosted by Mathias Doepfner, the billionaire chief executive of German media conglomerate AxelSpringer, last month.

“I have not put in a bid for TikTok,” Musk said, joining the conference remotely via video, which was made public by the Die Welt newspaper on Saturday. “I don’t have any ...