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Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty Submits Formal Offer to Buy TikTok

The Information · Kaya Yurieff · last updated

Project Liberty, the organization founded by billionaire Frank McCourt, on Thursday said it submitted a formal proposal to acquire TikTok’s U.S. assets.

McCourt said the offer would keep the short-form video app, which has 170 million monthly users in the U.S., alive in the country without using …

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