Who Controls TikTok? Examining the Military and Political Ties Behind New Investors
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The article examines how TikTok's ownership and control are shifting toward entities with ties to Israeli military contracts, U.S. defense funding, Gulf surveillance networks, and billionaire family offices. It argues that these new gatekeepers treat information as a weapon and that the platforms people use daily are being managed by actors with military and political agendas, rather than neutral tech investors.
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They're tied into Israeli military contracts, U.S. defense money, Gulf surveillance networks, and billionaire family offices that treat information as weapons.
When you line up the names, the tenders, the leaked emails, and the public statements, the picture is nothing less than authoritarian: the people who benefi
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