"we have seen a tech titan gut a once-great newspaper in an apparent act of capitulation to the commander in chief, government accounts gleefully spreading hateful memes on X (the far-right platform owned by a billionaire tech oligarch), a defamation lawsuit filed by Trump against The New York Times (and quickly dismissed by the judge as "superfluous"), and, of course, the assault on free speech carried out by Trump's Federal Communications Commission chairman."
"Although the deal is not yet complete, the White House has told reporters that the arrangement will result in the social app's algorithm being leased to a consortium led by Ellison's company, Oracle, and by the investors Andreessen Horowitz and Silver Lake. This promises to resolve long-standing concerns that the Chinese-owned TikTok might give an adversarial foreign government the capacity to influence and monitor the social-media behavior of U.S. residents."
American mass media experienced major changes in the early months of President Donald Trump's second administration. About 35 weeks into the term, a tech owner drastically altered a newspaper, government accounts spread hateful memes on X, and a defamation suit by Trump against The New York Times was dismissed. The FCC chairman enacted policies framed as assaults on free speech. TikTok's U.S. operations are reportedly likely to be sold to a consortium including Larry Ellison, Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz, and Silver Lake, with the app's algorithm to be leased to them. The sale aims to address Chinese ownership concerns but raises fears of domestic government abuse of social-media data.
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