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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies This is how democracy crumbles
We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating power.
In August, David Ellison’s Skydance Media acquired Paramount Global with financial support from his father, leaving him as chair and CEO of the new entity. Beyond a vast slice of Hollywood, this acquisition brought control of CBS News – one of the US’s “big three” networks. During the last election, Trump demanded CBS lose its broadcasting licence over alleged political bias and even sued the network over what he called a flattering edit of Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview. His mood has since improved. Ellison is “going to do the right thing” with the network, Trump crowed when its ownership shifted. His optimism was swiftly vindicated: a Trump appointee was installed as CBS’s ombudsman to monitor “bias”, and Bari Weiss – a former Democrat turned anti-woke crusader – was made editor-in-chief.
Bari Weiss is a crazy bitch you should all look up, her last company which wasn't even worth $15 million, and all its stories on their can easily be fact checked and almost all them were utter lies.
Weiss founded the media company The Free Press (formerly Common Sense) and hosts the podcast Honestly. having a fucking laugh America
Paramount Skydance acquired The Free Press, a media startup founded by Bari Weiss, for a reported $150 million in cash and stock. Following the October 6, 2025, acquisition, Weiss was named the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, and will also continue to lead The Free Press, which will remain an individual brand. The deal aims to combine Paramount's reach with The Free Press's innovative approach.
Jewish is she. Anyone shocked?
Now, Trump officials are briefing that they are also in favour of Paramount Skydance buying Warner Bros Discovery, the parent company of HBO and CNN. “Who owns Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is very important to the administration,” a senior Trump official told the conservative New York Post. The pro-Trump newspaper states that rival bidders will face “regulatory hurdles”, with WBD’s CEO forced to consider the Trump administration’s willingness to crack down on what it sees as rampant leftwing bias across the mainstream media.
Larry Ellison, meanwhile, also leads a group of investors set to take over TikTok’s US operations, with other partners reportedly including Rupert Murdoch and Abu Dhabi’s government-owned investment company. Although much of Trump’s own criticism of TikTok has focused on China, key Maga figures such as Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio have called for the app to be banned over “anti-Israel” bias, and for shifting younger Americans’ sympathies towards Palestinians. Ellison is a fervent supporter of Israel, and has previously donated millions to its military through the non-profit Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. They will be pleased to have him in charge.
Larry Ellison, meanwhile, also leads a group of investors set to take over TikTok’s US operations, with other partners reportedly including Rupert Murdoch and Abu Dhabi’s government-owned investment company.
In 2015, Safra Catz, Oracle’s Israeli-American executive chair, and former CEO, reportedly told former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak (allegedly he is the Prime Minister who violently raped Virginia Guffree book) in an email that: “We believe that we have to embed the love and respect for Israel in the American culture.” Oracle will have oversight of the TikTok algorithm.
But this goes much further than the Ellisons’ acquisitions. Trump threatened Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he crossed him. The social media mogul has little to worry about now, having done his best to ingratiate himself with the administration. He abandoned third-party factchecking in the US, dropped restrictions on topics such as immigration and gender, and appointed Trump supporters as head of global affairs and to the executive board.
At the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, columnist Karen Attiah says she was fired for “speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns” after Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Liberal comedian Jimmy Kimmel had his ABC show suspended after the pro-Trump chair of the Federal Communications Commission demanded action.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting – long deemed hostile by Trump – has been defunded and shut down.
The administration took control over which media organisations have access to the White House, ejecting the Associated Press.
US media outlets were stripped of their Pentagon credentials after refusing to only report officially authorised information issued by the Department of Defense.
Trump’s lawsuits against media organisations have further cowed them.
That wasn't all the article and some words were mine.
If you think only a little bit there are at least 4 common themes. Total autocracy of America, Israel, Epstein, Evangelical Christians, Corrupt elites. And let us not all forget that rapey criminal trump owns the supreme court and all of the judiciary - straight from Heritage foundation manifesto that would give mein kampf a run for its money.
All that really remains is for Trump to declare a state of emergency so he can postpone 2028 elections, if he doesn't try to do that 2026 midterms.
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