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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian joins Frank McCourt’s bid for TikTok

Summary

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has joined Frank McCourt’s bid to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations as a strategic adviser.

McCourt, who calls his bid “The People's Bid,” plans to give users more control over their data. Ohanian’s expertise in social media is expected to help validate and promote the initiative.

Other bidders include investors led by YouTuber MrBeast. ByteDance has not defined assets for sale and may shut down TikTok instead.

The White House is reviewing McCourt’s bid amid national security concerns.

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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian
Ohanian’s expertise in social media is
...banning people. ban. Ban. Ban. That's all that Reddit does.
- He's probably a grade-A bootlicker for the fascists, specifically for those sucking each-others' toes in the White House. Conservatives and cis-people tend to be weird like that I've heard. Which is good for those in charge, as the people crave for TikTok for its druglike addictive qualities and thus the current King (bless His orange visage) in the White House (long may He reign) would get more of the people's approval, while having bootlickers like these dudes in charge of it He'd also appease the zionists' thirst to kill, rape, pillage, burn, enact genocide and rule over every muslim and muslim territory in the area, specifically right now the Palestinians, unimpeded, by blocking everything that even slightly smells of being pro-Palestine.

For some reason I thought this asshole had some substance to him a while ago. That all evaporated when I watched him guffaw about ‘apes’ and other crypto scams for an hour with fellow tech bro dullard Kevin Rose.