President Donald Trump has would have chosen Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, owners of Fox News, as part of a group that will be controlled by the influential algorithm of Tiktok.
This decision consolidates more media control on the right while the Trump administration is committed to a large -scale assault on the first amendment.
“Rupert will probably be in the group, I think they are going to be in the group, a few others. Really great people. Very eminent people. And they are also American patriots, they like this country, so I think they are going to do a very good job,” Trump told journalists Sunday.
He also said that Murdoch, Lachlan’s son, and the MAGNATS of billionaire Larry Ellison and Michael Dell technology would be included.
The sale of Tiktok was mandated by a 2024 law targeting society for security problems due to its Chinese property. Trump has several times extended the deadline For a sale since he took office in January.
Tiktok would have accounts for 136 million users In the United States, it is more than in any other country – and the videos of the site have been extremely influential in politics and entertainment. Similar to billionaire on the right The purchase by Elon Musk of X (formerly Twitter), the sale of Tiktok could be extremely influential on American policy.
The Murdoch family media, News Corp, has its hands on points of sale around the world, including the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal and the Sun. Family policy is extremely right and Fox has been A coherent promoter Trump lies.
In fact, the network is so far in the corner of Trump that it paid Nearly $ 800 million in legal regulations after broadcasting conspiracies wrongly claiming that Trump won the 2020 elections.
Trump is Currently prosecuted Murdoch’s reports on Wall Street Journal on his links with Jeffrey Epstein, whose friendship with the president was good documented Over the years.
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Oracle, the technological company co -founded by Multillionaire Ellisonwould also have supervised the Tiktok algorithm. Ellison was A trumper donor in the 2020 elections and was one of the meetings Regarding Trump’s second term.
In related media developments, Paramount Skydance is would also have Prepare an offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, which has points of sale like CNN. Ellison, who is the father of the CEO of Paramount Skydance, David Ellison, apparently finances a large part of this takeover.
Beneading maneuvers with Tiktok and Paramount Skydance reveal the predatory nature of the right forces surrounding the media – everything while Trump uses the government censor Anyone who does not agree with him.
