Buying TikTok: Inside Frank McCourt's bid | Rapid Response
About Frank
- Executive chairman of McCourt Global, a multi-sector investment firm.
- Founder of Project Liberty, a $500M initiative for decentralized internet protocols (2024).
- Owner of Olympique de Marseille football club and former owner of the LA Dodgers.
- Major benefactor and namesake of Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy.
- Author of 'OUR BIGGEST FIGHT: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age' (2024).
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Next week, TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, will appear in court as the U.S. government moves to force the Chinese company to shutter or sell its wildly popular social platform. Investor and former LA Dodgers owner Frank McCourt is preparing a consortium bid to buy the app — and access to its 170 million users. McCourt joins Rapid Response to explain the national security case against Bytedance, take us inside the story of his TikTok bid, and reveal how he would use the platform to address a central crisis of our digital age.
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