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Fox News Must Pay, DeSantis Doubles Down on Disney, and Dmitri Alperovitch on Discord

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The Importance of Media Control in TikTok

The debate around TikTok has been very misguided because so much of it has been focused on data. To me, TikTok is a media company and they're deciding not just what to show to you, but what not to show in terms of the moderation. And that's a huge problem. We have media ownership rules in this country. This is not a First Amendment issue. You may recall that when Rupert Murdoch was trying to buy the Fox network, he had to become an American citizen. Even as an Australian citizen, an ally country, he was not allowed to own a major media company.

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