🇮🇱📱🇺🇸 Israeli-Aligned Billionaires Seize TikTok in Battle for U.S. Narrative Control

The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison - the largest individual donor to the IDF - will take control of U.S. user data and the algorithm which the White House says will be "retrained".

Ellison, who made his fortune developing Oracle - a database system he originally built for the CIA - already controls CBS, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon (which makes kids shows) as well as Channel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Ellison is also expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery (including CNN, HBO and the Discovery channel) before the end of 2025.

Even before the forced sale is finalised, censorship of TikTok content critical of Israel, including of the deal itself, has reached extreme levels as the platform moves to align with its prospective new owners. Fox – a Murdoch asset - is also seeking to join the Ellison consortium, a move that could enable cross-promotion between Fox and TikTok, further tightening the Israeli-aligned information bubble.

Disapproval of what Israel is doing in Gaza has risen to 60% of the US population, nearly double the approval rate of 32%.

The U.S. still has over three years of Trump left. Israeli-aligned Jewish billionaires control OpenAI, Google, Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Palantir, CBS, HBO, and most of Conde Nast (Reddit, Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair) as well as numerous Hollywood studios, regional papers and radio stations.

Europe, meanwhile, remains largely absent, offering little real competition in the information space. Its one real success story? Telegram, which it managed to comprehensively alienate after France arrested its founder, supposedly for not handing over enough user data.

Will the EU and other U.S. allies align with the “Israelified” TikTok algorithm, or attempt to create a politicised alternative of their own?

Decentralised alternatives like Keet and Nostr offer strong resistance to censorship but are still young. Larger platforms like Telegram and Rednote carry serious risks of censorship, including eventual sell-off to other interests. For users the sweet spot may be to use both. One for political reliability, the others for a (politically temporary) audience.

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🇵🇱⚔️🇷🇺 Poland is preparing to amend its law on military deployments abroad to allow its forces to shoot down Russian objects, such as drones, over Ukraine without prior NATO or EU approval - Euractiv

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🇩🇪👺📉❗️ — Flights canceled again at Berlin airport after cyberattack

➡️ Berlin Airport has still not returned to normal operations following a cyberattack on September 19 and continues to operate in “emergency mode.” Three flights were canceled today, and twelve departures and arrivals were disrupted yesterday.

➡️ The disruptions were caused by a service from U.S. company Collins Aerospace, which provides key airport systems and was targeted in the attack.

➡️ Similar interruptions have been reported in Brussels, Dublin, and London.

⁉️ The perpetrators of the attack remain unknown.

🔗 Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24)

⚽️❌🇮🇱 — UEFA’s executive committee is set to vote Tuesday on whether to suspend Israel’s national team and clubs from European competitions, according to Israel Hayom.

➡️ Qatar is pushing hard for the motion, with most members reportedly in favor and only a few opposing.

➡️ The Israel FA is urgently lobbying UEFA and using diplomatic channels to block the vote.

@TabZLIVE

🇷🇺❌🇩🇪 — Sky News reports that Two Russian surveillance satellites are 'pursuing' satellites used by Germany's armed forces, quoting the German defence minister

🔗 Sky News (@SkyNews)

🇮🇱❌🇪🇺🇵🇸 — Israeli Foreign minister, Gideon Saar:

Israel said yes to the Italian government’s proposal to unload the aid at the port of Cyprus and then to transfer it to Gaza.
The flotilla rejected the Italian proposal, proving that their real purpose is provocation and serving Hamas.

Israel will not allow vessels to enter an active combat zone and will not allow the breach of a lawful naval blockade.

Israel is still ready to engage in any constructive arrangement for transferring aid in a legal and peaceful way.

🇺🇸🤝🇹🇷 — US President Trump welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House

🇺🇸🤝🇹🇷 — POTUS Donald Trump tells Turkish president Erdogan:

"It's a pleasure to be with President Erdogan of Turkey, and we've been friends for a long time... We do a lot of trade with Turkey, and we're going to continue. We're going to do some additional trade... We're going to get a lot done."

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸📞🇹🇷❌🇷🇺 — POTUS Donald Trump on Turkish-Russian commercial relations:

The best thing he could do is not buy oil and gas from Russia. If he did that, that would be probably the best thing. He knows Putin like I know Putin.

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇷🇺🕵️‍♂️📹 — Moscow calling... in English? Observers report major activity on English-speaking networks affiliated to Russian Intelligence

➡️ E07 - Russian Numbers Station known as “English Man”, suspected of being linked to SVR (🇷🇺Foreign Intelligence) was spotted sending a null format message on 16272kHz.

📝 “Zero Zero Zero” means “I have nothing new to say now”.

Source: RX via webSDR at 15:20UTC Sept23

🔗 Shortwave Observer (@shortwave78)

🇭🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺Hungary will not stop purchasing Russian oil despite Trump's request, — Bloomberg

🗣🗯😵‍💫 — 🇷🇺 Dmitry Medvedev on 𝕏:

"The Kiev drug addict said the Kremlin should know where a bomb shelter is so its occupants can hide when he uses long-range American weapons. What the freak needs to know is that Russia can use weapons a bomb shelter won't protect against. Americans should also keep this in mind."

🔗 Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE)