TORONTO, Canada – Frank McCourt, a US real estate billionaire, aims to buy TikTok to rescue the internet from the clutches of major platforms that he firmly believes are destroying society and endangering children.
In the United States, McCourt is best known as the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, while in Europe he is the current proprietor of storied football club Olympique de Marseille that counts French President Emmanuel Macron among its fans.For years, McCourt has railed against the power of the big tech platforms, accusing them of harming children and helping send the world off the rails.'We are being manipulated by these big platforms.
It's about how we think, how we emote, how we react, how we behave,' he said.McCourt envisions a new internet that he describes as an open-source, decentralized protocol where users control their own data, regardless of the social media app they use.Acquiring TikTok would give his project, known as Project Liberty, a whole new scale, bringing in its legions of users, mostly younger people, he said.
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