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Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the Internet
Jul 18, 2025 · 10 min · 9.1 MB
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Billionaire Frank McCourt wants to buy TikTok. Not to go viral—but to rewire the web. He says 170 million users could help him turn the Internet into something less addictive… and more democratic. Is that idealism, delusion… or both? As President Trump extends the deadline on the sale of the app, we return to our discussion with Frank McCourt.
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