This sounds like a script out of Hollywood — one that Steve Mnuchin himself might have produced. Here’s the pitch: A multi-billionaire with too much time on his hands decides to buy out a social-media platform to save free expression and civil rights in America. Along the way, he meets zany characters like, er, Chinese intel operatives, and ends up exposing government influence and interference in its operations.
On second thought, no one will buy that. It would never happen!
Except it might … again. Maybe:
BREAKING
Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin tells @andrewrsorkin that he’s interested in buying TikTok and is putting a group of investors together.
He wouldn’t tell Andrew which investors are in his group.
Worth noting that former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has also… pic.twitter.com/T9aqXPKGmE
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 14, 2024
Unlike Elon Musk, Mnuchin has…
