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TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill ^[1.1]^

The title feels misinformative to me given, the following from the article:

[…] Trump insiders claim to be zeroing in on a deal that would sell 80% of TikTok’s U.S. assets to […] ^[1.2]^

To me, the title infers that TikTok is being sold with certainty, whereas the content of the article sates that a deal has yet to even be reached.

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  1. Type: Article. Title: "TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill". Published: 2025-09-17T10:50. Accessed: 2025-09-21T01:29Z. URI: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/tiktok-to-be-sold-to-trumps-right-wing-billionaire-buddies-and-converted-into-a-propaganda-mill/.
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      TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

Nice, another of those shit platforms nobody needs is dead.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies

Zionist supremacist oligarchs who are heavily involved in election financing in cooperation with Israel Lobby that directly manages loyalty oaths to Israel from every Federally elected official. Zionists supremacists shifted heavily to Trump this cycle, with DNC funding paying them to lose for the most Zionist supremacist election outcome.

Media bending over backwards to not call it what it is, is clear and direct result of bipartisan submission to ZIonist supremacism.

Proof that this purchase is entirely to enforce Zionist supremacism, is that this group will overpay with licensing fees in order to add their layer of censorship on opposition to genocide, and humanizing people resisting genocide and supremacism. The buyers don't care about making money from purchase, and will be proven by deal structure.

As backdrop on Larry Ellison, his wealth grew over $100B last week on the most fraudulent BS in the history of finance. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-openai-300-billion-deal-150815377.html

Open AI, who loses money on $10B in annual revenue, has promised (non binding) Oracle $60B/year for GPU/datacenter services for next 5 years. Oracle has yet to even think about how it would fulfill this revenue, and Open AI has no way whatsoever of paying for it. Open AI models are not particularly cost/quality competitive relative to Anthropic (or Gemini/llama) or Deepseek/other Chinese open models. OpenAI's future and this Oracle contract, depends on it getting the US military contract for Skynet.

Should you short Oracle in the face of this? Of course not! Zionist supremacist oligarchs in the US are the chosen people, and above criticism.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Converted, huh. It's not already there?

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

So it'll be the same but maybe a little more america based?

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