Billionaire Frank McCourt is putting together a consortium to buy TikTok, and if he succeeds, it will definitely not be business as usual for the social media app. The former Los Angeles Dodgers owner aims to make TikTok part of his project to create "a more open, inclusive, and responsible internet." In a news release, McCourt's Project Liberty said the consortium plans to "rearchitect the platform" to put people in control of their own data. "The foundation of our digital infrastructure is broken, and it's time to fix it," McCourt said. "We can, and must, do more to safeguard the health and well-being of our children, families, democracy, and society."
- Tim Berners-Lee is on board. "This proposal has my support," Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, said in a statement. "The web I invented was to provide power and value to individuals, which they do not have at the moment. Users should have an ability to control their own data, to share it with other people and organizations as they choose." Other supporters include social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.