Trump's billionaire allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch. They own Fox News, C

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Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie

Trump’s billionaire allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets.

They control the AI you're asking for answers, the algorithms feeding you content, your personal data you've given up for access, and the devices you rely on.

The news and your privacy are now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

This is all by design.

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[Scrivener7]

1. So don't use those things. There are alternatives. Put your money, clicks

and views only on sources that serve you. Not ones bent on your destruction.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. With the exception of the Ellison's, most of these billionaires have controlled the media for years

Decades, in the case of the Murdochs.

It’s not just a Trump-related phenomenon.

If we’d had more aggressive regulation (Lina Kahn tried in the short time she had), some of this might have been prevented.

Another Must-Do on the democrats’ to-do list, unless of course the lobbyists get to them with their check books first.

[Raftergirl]

3. It's pretty hard to avoid all contact with these entities but most listed I have nothing to do with.

I also refuse to use AI to ask questions, I can research anything on my own without it. And it’s easy, imo, to tell what is AI manufactured slop.

[Scrivener7]

4. It is. After completely weaning myself from Amazon, my union switched to the

Amazon pharmacy.

I hate that I have no choice in that.