{"id":20203,"date":"2025-09-25T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/murdochs-tiktok-trump-offers-allies-another-lever-of-media-control\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:37:15","slug":"murdochs-tiktok-trump-offers-allies-another-lever-of-media-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/murdochs-tiktok-trump-offers-allies-another-lever-of-media-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch\u2019s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the known terms of the deal with China, TikTok would get a new board, including Murdochs and Ellisons<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> revealed last week the US and China are close to inking a deal to let <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/tiktok\">TikTok<\/a> continue operating in the US. Details are not final, but should the agreement go through as has been reported, the owners of the US\u2019s most powerful cable TV channels may soon also steer the nation\u2019s most influential social network. The arrangement would gift Trump\u2019s billionaire allies a degree of control over US media that would be vast and unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we know. Under the known terms of the deal, which Trump declared has the tentative buy-in of Chinese president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xi-jinping\">Xi Jinping<\/a>, TikTok in the US would get a new group of US investors, led by the US software giant Oracle, which would license TikTok\u2019s vaunted recommendation algorithm and take over its security.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/24\/tiktok-trump-murdoch-ellison\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6856a36502477eb3e7721678dfa00deb9ac4fcec\/0_0_3000_2400\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b55ab2480b0a02eb4c2859dc0224132f\" title=\"Murdoch\u2019s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control\" \/>Under the known terms of the deal with China, TikTok would get a new board, including Murdochs and Ellisons<br \/>\nDonald Trump revealed last week the US and China are close to inking a deal to let TikTok continue operating in the US. Details are not final, but should the agreement go through as has been reported, the owners of the US\u2019s most powerful cable TV channels may soon also steer the nation\u2019s most influential social network. The arrangement would gift Trump\u2019s billionaire allies a degree of control over US media that would be vast and unprecedented.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s what we know. Under the known terms of the deal, which Trump declared has the tentative buy-in of Chinese president Xi Jinping, TikTok in the US would get a new group of US investors, led by the US software giant Oracle, which would license TikTok\u2019s vaunted recommendation algorithm and take over its security. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the known terms of the deal with China, TikTok would get a new board, including Murdochs and Ellisons Donald Trump revealed last week the US and China are close to inking a deal to let TikTok continue operating in the US. Details are not final, but should the agreement go through as has been &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/murdochs-tiktok-trump-offers-allies-another-lever-of-media-control\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Murdoch\u2019s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20204,"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\/20203"}],"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=20203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}