U.S. President Donald Trump is working with Larry Ellison, Rupert Murdoch and other centi-billionaires, to create a press network that is purchased and controlled by the British and its partners, the CIA and Israelis, and would be pro-Trump.
On Sept. 25, President Trump announced that Larry Ellison, the founder and executive chairman of the $800 billion-in-stock-valuation Oracle Corporation, would be involved in a $14 billion deal to buy TikTok’s U.S. business from its current owner, the Chinese company ByteDance. TikTok is a social media platform that is wildly popular among a portion of young people. Ellison is personally worth a third of a trillion dollars. Billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Michael Dell would also play a role, Trump said, as would Silver Lake Management and the Abu Dhabi-based MGX venture capital firm.
The idea is that TikTok would be a vehicle to sway young people in a particular direction.
President Trump has made the outlandish charge that TikTok is under Chinese Communist influence, and initially threatened to bank TikTok in the United States to force ByteDance to sell it.
The 81-year-old Larry Ellison, a centerpiece of this operation, whom President Trump calls a friend and confidant, has quite a history. In the 1970s, Ellison, who then worked for a company called Software Development, worked on a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency project codenamed “Oracle,” whose purpose was to develop a large-scale data base. In fact, the CIA paid Ellison and his partners $50,000. Ellison was so impressed with the CIA project he worked on (and perhaps because of continuing work with the CIA) that he later changed the name of his company to Oracle Systems in 1983.
Ellison is also one of the major private funders of the Israel Defense Forces, through his large contribution to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. As well, he has also contributed $343.2 million since 2021 to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. see EIR article “Tony Blair’s Digital Dystopia Targets You.”
TikTok, it appears, would be only one part of a controlled media empire that Trump and his multi-billionaire friends are trying to build.
Larry Ellison set up his son David Ellison with substantial financial support to establish Skydance Media in 2006. On Aug. 7 of this year, Skydance bought Paramount Pictures, renaming it Skydance Paramount. Paramount owns CBS Entertainment, which includes the CBS tv network, as well as MTV, Showtime, and so forth. David Ellison installed Bari Weiss, a self-described “Zionist fanatic” as editor-in-chief of CBS News.
As the third part of this deal, on Oct. 22, the New York Times, in an article “Three Offers in One Month: Paramount’s Secret Pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery,” reports that David Ellison’s Skydance Paramount has made three offers, of increasing amounts, to take over Warner Brothers Discovery. Warner Brothers owns CNN News, thus the Ellison family would own both CBS and CNN News, two of the largest news networks in the world, as well as the Warner Brothers and Paramount Hollywood studios, the Discovery channel, and so forth.
Parallel to this would be the Rupert Murdoch family’s News World media network, which includes The Times of London, the Wall Street Journal, The Sun of London, the New York Post, Fox News, and Sky News. This News World is an overwhelmingly pro-British, pro-Trump network, although there are sometimes differences. The Ellison media empire would also be pro-British, and as well, pro-Trump.
