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Seven billionaires decide what you read, what you watch, and what you’re allowed to know.

Billionaires battle to control your news, films & future

One company backed by MAGA billionaire Larry Ellison is on track to own Paramount, Warner Bros., CNN, HBO, and CBS, along with a vast array of media properties, if its massive new $100 billion merger goes through.

Radical Right Wing Trump Supporting Billionaire Larry Ellison, who believed the 2020 election was stolen used his own money to buy CBS and install his son as the boss

Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America

With the Paramount-Skydance merger approved by the FCC, Larry Ellison just showed the world who is the real shot caller in the White House.

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the 80-year-old software tycoon and second-richest man in the world, became the Most Powerful Man in the World

On Thursday evening, the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve Paramount’s $8.4 billion merger with fellow entertainment firm Skydance Media. The controversial, long-awaited deal only came about thanks to Paramount’s appeals to this administration: settling a baseless lawsuit that Trump brought against 60 Minutes for “deceptively” editing its Kamala Harris interview, pressuring subsidiary CBS News to shift its “balance” in a right-wing direction, and canceling presidential foe and beloved comedian Stephen Colbert’s highly rated late-night talk show.

Of note: Skydance is owned by Ellison’s son, David, who personally met with both Trump and FCC Chair Brendan Carr to get the deal done. The elder Ellison is covering most of the cash to close the Skydance-Paramount merger, which will give him significant control over the new company and a chance to carry out, as he detailed in federal filings, a wholesale transformation of CBS in his vision—including broadcasts of complimentary PSAs for Trump administration initiatives.

When Carr announced the merger approval, he positively affirmed “Skydance’s commitment to make significant changes at the once storied CBS broadcast network,” including the impending hire of an “ombudsman” who’ll monitor CBS News broadcasts for “bias” as the overall company slashes its diversity, equity, and inclusion guidelines. Said Trump himself of his “friend” Larry Ellison: “I think he’s going to run CBS really well, and I think he’s making a good deal to buy it.”

Through this brazenly corrupt arrangement, the U.S. president has granted one of his pals uninhibited control over a longtime bastion of mainstream, fact-based news, which he openly intends to bend toward his conservative vision. And that’s just one of the ways Trump is helping Larry Ellison become the most powerful and not-so-secretly influential tech mogul in the country.
Oracle, which Larry still runs as chief technology officer and board chairman, is also in talks with David Ellison’s Skydance for a major deal that would see the latter pay the former $100 million a year to run all of Paramount’s tech through Oracle’s valuable cloud-computing software. Skydance already pays Oracle $2.2 million a year for its cloud and platform products, and the FCC explicitly signed off on David Ellison’s plan to run all of Paramount’s and Skydance’s software on the same cloud tech, which will be provided by Oracle.

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CBS / Paramount Caved to Trump’s extortion by paying a multi-million dollar ‘bribe” to settle Trump’s baseless law suit so his corrupt FCC Chief will approve the Paramount-Skydance merger, plus agree to cancel Stephen Colbert, turn CBS into the new FOX NEWS PRO-TRUMP PROPAGANDA outlet and end DEI.  As stated in an article below; “Trump’s FCC Chief Brendan Carr Is Acting More Like a Mob Enforcer Than a Federal Regulator”.

While the ultimate decision to settle involved multiple actors within Paramount, including the board of directors, reports indicate that Shari Redstone, the chair and controlling shareholder of Paramount, was a key proponent of exploring a settlement with Trump. Some executives viewed Trump’s lawsuit as a potential hurdle to completing a proposed sale of the company to Skydance Media, which required the Trump administration’s approval.

Other individuals involved in the settlement process included CBS News executives and legal teams who initially opposed a settlement, citing the First Amendment and the perceived lack of merit in the lawsuit. However, the settlement was ultimately reached through mediation efforts

In a secret meeting between CBS and CBS News’ new owner (Skydance) and the Trump Administration, promised Trump that they would effectively be the new Fox News Propaganda outlet, running Trump approved ads, and putting Trump friendly news and programming on the air.  Trump’s FCC crony just approved the sale of CBS’ parent to a big Trump supporter’s son. Michael Popok takes a  look at a new letter that reveals it all, and what it means for CBS and its viewership.

Google, Bing & Yahoo changed their algorithms several years ago so only huge corporate ‘authority’ sites such as the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, ABC, NBC etc comes up in search results.  Therefore, they are engaging in censorship and helping to destroy the truth, democracy and our country by suppressing smaller sites with the most relevant information which matches search queries, while putting their thumb on the scale for huge corporate sites which are run and controlled by billionaires.

To prove the point, try doing a search for search terms which describe various pages on this site and you’ll find that few, if any of them comes up on page 1, 2 or 3.

This is happening to millions of websites. Part of the reason is due to monetary greed because Google, Bing & Yahoo want site owners to PAY to using PPC (Pay Per Click) to get their site on page one.

Most people are unaware that there are only three (3) search engines where all others gets their data; Google, Bing and Yandex. Yahoo gets it’s data from Bing so when you do a search in Yahoo, Bing is providing the search results.

Microsoft Bing became the search engine for Yahoo on August 24, 2010, following a 10-year partnership agreement announced in July 2009. The transition replaced Yahoo’s organic search results with Bing in the U.S. and Canada with global implementation completed by early 2012.

Google IS BLOCKING WEB SEARCHES About Donald Trump’s Dementia

Jesse discusses a report from The Verge regarding Google’s alleged interference with web searches related to Donald Trump’s cognitive abilities.

The Shocking Discovery of a Harvard Scientist Who Was Warned to Stay Silent

In this video, Dr. Robert Epstein, a Harvard-trained psychologist blows the whistle on how Google is actively engaged in shaping public opinions and beliefs by manipulating algorithms, so what they what you to see appears on page one, and what they don’t want see gets buried.

Dr. Robert Epstein, a Harvard-trained psychologist, has dedicated his career to studying how technology influences human behavior. His research has raised important questions about the power of algorithms, online platforms, and the ways digital tools can shape public opinion.

Only 3 Search Engines Actually Exist — Here’s What It Means

Did you know that only three major search engines truly dominate the internet? While it may seem like there are dozens of options, most traffic is controlled by Google, Bing, and Yandex.

This video explains what that means for privacy, information access, and how your online behavior is being tracked.