- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
(Not exactly media criticism, but there is no c/fediverse comm here 🤷)
In 2013, he donated $100 million to establish the McCourt School of Public Policy, the ninth school of Georgetown University. He made a second $100 million gift to Georgetown University in March 2021, for the express purpose of ensuring that “the McCourt School can open its doors more widely and build a pipeline of future public policy leaders that reflects the true diversity of our communities.”
In 2021, he founded the non-profit Project Liberty. The initiative has multiple components which includes the development of the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), the founding of the McCourt Institute with founding academic partners Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Sciences Po in Paris, and a network of partners within the Unfinished network
In 2023, he transitioned from CEO of McCourt Global to executive chairman and announced Shéhérazade Semsar de Boisséson, former POLITICO Europe CEO, as McCourt Global’s CEO.
In 2024, he announced plans to build a consortium to buy the US arm of TikTok.
- Project Liberty: https://www.projectliberty.io/
- “DSNP stands for Decentralized Social Networking Protocol”: https://www.projectliberty.io/dsnp/
- DSNP.org Blog, May 2024: Announcing the Publication of the DSNP Governance Framework v.1
- Forbes, 2022: Transforming The Internet With Project Liberty
- Semafor: Tech critic McCourt mounts TikTok bid
- McCourt School of Public Policy @ Georgetown University: https://mccourt.georgetown.edu
Discovered in a lemmy.ml/c/privacy post today: Project Liberty
Oh great, neolibs