Former Dodgers Owner: I May Want to Buy TikTok

Billionaire businessman and real estate mogul Frank McCourt announced Tuesday that his Project Liberty organization is building a consortium to buy TikTok’s U.S. business.

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McCourt is working with the investment bank Guggenheim Securities to organize the bid “with the goal of placing people and data empowerment at the center of the platform’s design and purpose,” Project Liberty announced on Tuesday.

Additionally, the former Los Angeles Dodgers owner is also working in consultation with the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, as well as “world-renowned technologists, academics, community leaders, parents, and engaged citizens.”

If the sale is successful, McCourt said his plan is to “rearchitect” TikTok’s platform and allow U.S. users “to reclaim agency over their digital identities and data by proposing to migrate the platform to a new digital open-source protocol.”

Ed Morrissey

As a (mainly former) Dodgers fan, I can't say I look back on the McCourt era too fondly. I don't know that he'd do worse with TikTok, and maybe he could do a lot better, but the real issue is that the CCP won't let ByteDance sell it. Right now they can create a lot of political headaches in the US by shutting down access in the US or shutting down altogether. 

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