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Trump Brokering Deal to Hand TikTok Over to Right-Wing Billionaires Andreessen and Ellison (Trump allies) (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 1 week ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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The American companies include the investment firm Silver Lake, the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and the technology company Oracle. The latter two are controlled by some of Trump’s most prolific supporters.

Marc Andreessen and his partner Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5 million to Trump’s super PAC during the 2024 election.

Andreessen, who said at the end of 2024 he was spending roughly “half” his time at Mar-a-Lago, was tapped as an economic adviser to Trump earlier this year, where he helped to recruit staffers to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). After unleashing a bevy of false claims, Andreessen led the charge for DOGE to virtually kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which he’d long loathed for its investigations into his investment firms.

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Doesn't matter whether you like Tiktok or not, this is some nazi fascist bullshit

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 17 points 1 week ago

I'm glad I never fell into that platform. Now I'll never go there.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 14 points 1 week ago

Just came to be pedantic

There are no left wing billionaires.

There are only billionaires and billionaires trying to buy room in heaven.

[–] Pistcow@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good idea, and then the platform can die.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Twitter still exists so I wouldn't be so sure about that

[–] Pistcow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Its dying and revenue dropping like a tank

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn’t matter, Elon will personally fund it so it can continue to be a nazi cesspool meant to destabilize

[–] Pistcow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

This guy gets it. Here's for hoping for a Digg situation.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's the funny thing about governments and billionaires, they don't need to worry about things like that because it's functionally impossible for them to run out of money.

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Wow, Ellison family definitely on the offensive

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Cleptonomics.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Pay. To. Play.