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Transcript: Frank McCourt on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Dec. 8, 2024

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A new law could effectively ban the popular social media app TikTok by mid-January if its Chinese owners do not sell it to a new buyer.

Frank McCourt , the Executive Chairman of McCourt Global , and founder of Project Liberty , is one of the potential buyers.

McCourt: "The internet is broken, fundamentally broken. We need to fix the technology".

Frank McCourt says he's built a clean, bottom-up American stack to move user base over.

There'll be no Chinese back doors and no ability to to take advantage of U.S. citizens, he says.

He wants to make a deal where everybody wins, where China 's able to sell the US portion of TikTok .

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