Paramount’s Purchase of CNN Heralds a New Trump-Friendly Media Empire
If the Paramount/WBD deal moves forward, Larry and David Ellison would gain control of a vast portfolio spanning legacy media and Big Tech.
Social Media Working to Protect ICE Clampdown in Minneapolis
We have a social media oligarchy that is now working directly in the interests of the Trump administration’s national police state.
As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media
The Ellison duo taking over both CBS and CNN, as well as controlling a major social media network like TikTok, would be dangerous for democracy.
NYT Complains Trump Isn’t Anti-Media Enough
The New York Times is angry because it supports the muzzling of TikTok for Cold War–inspired reasons.
Trump Vow to ‘Save’ TikTok No Reprieve for Free Speech
This could very well be merely a delay in a ban, rather than long-term preservation of the TikTok platform.
‘There’s No Public Evidence of the Kind of Manipulation TikTok Is Accused Of’:
CounterSpin interview with Yanni Chen on TikTok ruling
“It singles out a single app without really providing any justification why, and then they just say, ‘Congress picked this one.'”
Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime
Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”
Appeals Court Upholding TikTok Ban Is a Grim Sign for Press Freedom
A US District Court of Appeals, with two Republican-appointed judges and one picked by a Democrat, has upheld a law forcing the sale of TikTok.
Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate, Insha Rahman on Immigration Conversation
Why are events we pay insurance for a “crisis” for the industry we pay it to? The unceasing effects of climate disruption will only throw that question into more relief.
Judges in TikTok Case Seem Ready to Discount First Amendment
A US circuit court panel appears ready to uphold a federal law that would effectively ban the popular social media network TikTok.
TikTok Law Is an Attempt to Censor, Not a Warning to Big Tech
It’s not a good-faith regulation to protect the populace, but an effort to either seize or severely weaken TikTok in the name of US interests.
House Votes Against TikTok—and for More Cold War
The US government campaign against TikTok has very little to do with privacy, and everything to do with McCarthyism and neo-Cold War fervor.
‘Free Speech’ Fans Call for Censoring TikTok as Chinese Plot to Make Israel Look Bad
The Republican-held House could push to ban TikTok completely, on the grounds that it allows too much criticism of Israel.
Montana TikTok Ban a Sign of Intensified Cold War With China
Corporate anti-competitive power and Cold War fears lead the government to contemplate censoring media now available to 80 million Americans.
