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A Real Estate Mogul Has a $100 Million Plan to Save the Internet

Written by brandonlin | Jun 21, 2021 3:48:48 PM

(Bloomberg) -- Frank McCourt, the billionaire real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is pouring $100 million into an attempt to rebuild the foundations of social media. The effort, which he has loftily named Project Liberty, centers on the construction of a publicly accessible database of people’s social connections, allowing users to move records of their relationships between social media services instead of being locked into a few dominant apps.