Billionaire Elon Musk has clarified that he is not interested in purchasing TikTok, the popular short video platform which the United States has been trying to ban due to concern over its Chinese owner ByteDance. Musk, who is leading US President Donald Trump’s newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), made the comments in late January during a summit hosted by The WELT Group which is a part of the German media company Axel Springer SE. Amid growing uncertainty over TikTok’s future in the US, President Donald Trump had said that he was open to Musk taking over the ByteDance-owned…