{"id":20183,"date":"2025-09-24T07:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/australia-may-have-to-choose-between-a-chinese-tiktok-and-one-owned-by-trumps-billionaire-backers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:37:42","slug":"australia-may-have-to-choose-between-a-chinese-tiktok-and-one-owned-by-trumps-billionaire-backers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/australia-may-have-to-choose-between-a-chinese-tiktok-and-one-owned-by-trumps-billionaire-backers\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia may have to choose between a Chinese TikTok and one owned by Trump\u2019s billionaire backers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp\u2019s \u2018worrying dominance\u2019 in Australian media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/sep\/24\/australia-news-live-anthony-albanese-new-york-united-nations-donald-trump-climate-crisis-palestine-israel-gaza-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Would you rather a Chinese-owned TikTok or one run by a consortium of Trump-supporting billionaires? <\/p>\n<p> That\u2019s the choice Australia is being asked to consider.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has outlined that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/19\/deal-to-transfer-tiktok-to-us-control-unresolved-trump-xi-call\">a proposed deal for TikTok to remain in operation in the United States<\/a> would transfer the control of TikTok\u2019s US operations to a US company that will have seven seats on the board, with six filled by Americans. Donald Trump has suggested a consortium of US businesses, including Larry Ellison\u2019s Oracle and Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch\u2019s Fox Corporation, are involved in the deal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/24\/tiktok-ownership-chinese-american-australia-may-choose-between-china-usa-trump-billionaire-backers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d1b0a0d29866c0b83cc01bc7110df43f14f3f2cf\/991_0_6536_5229\/master\/6536.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=abd68767b1586bb2a1ebbb8b60bed50f\" title=\"Australia may have to choose between a Chinese TikTok and one owned by Trump\u2019s billionaire backers\" \/>Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp\u2019s \u2018worrying dominance\u2019 in Australian media<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Would you rather a Chinese-owned TikTok or one run by a consortium of Trump-supporting billionaires?<br \/>\n That\u2019s the choice Australia is being asked to consider.<br \/>\nThe Trump administration has outlined that a proposed deal for TikTok to remain in operation in the United States would transfer the control of TikTok\u2019s US operations to a US company that will have seven seats on the board, with six filled by Americans. Donald Trump has suggested a consortium of US businesses, including Larry Ellison\u2019s Oracle and Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch\u2019s Fox Corporation, are involved in the deal. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp\u2019s \u2018worrying dominance\u2019 in Australian media Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Would you rather a Chinese-owned TikTok or one run by a consortium of Trump-supporting billionaires? That\u2019s the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/australia-may-have-to-choose-between-a-chinese-tiktok-and-one-owned-by-trumps-billionaire-backers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia may have to choose between a Chinese TikTok and one owned by Trump\u2019s billionaire backers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}