Trump Gets $10 Billion Kickback To The Treasury For Offloading TikTok To His Billionaire Buddies

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/trump-gets-10-billion-kickback-to-the-treasury-for-offloading-tiktok-to-his-billionaire-buddies/

À Fouju (77), l’illusoire « souveraineté » du plus grand projet de data center de France [N°20]

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.lechiffon.fr/a-fouju-77-lillusoire-souverainete-du-plus-grand-projet-de-data-center-de-france-n20/

TikTok's sale is official.

Take a look at one of its new owners, MGX, a state-backed Abu Dhabi fund.

me, for @Forbes in Oct.

#news #uspol #MGX #tiktok #trump

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/10/15/mgx-abu-dhabi-tiktok-trump-usd1-binance-aligned-data-centers/

對美國用戶來說，TikTok出售後會變得更安全，但卻可有可無嗎？

This piece nails it! The "new" TikTok "deal" is simply an exercise in decorative shape shifting for a situation that has basically been in place for 3 years.

This was never about addressing data privacy, propaganda, or national security. It was always about the US grabbing a big chunk of ownership one of the most popular and successful social media apps. The US Congress just made sure that is was Trump sycophants who got the "win". https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its-somehow-the-shittiest-possible-outcome-making-everything-worse/ #TikTok #Oracle #SilverLake #MGX #NationalSecurity #SocialMedia #China #ByteDance #Algorithm #Privacy #DataPrivacy

Larry #Ellison, of #Oracle fame and loud pro Israel proponent, just bought #TikTok. Well, him and some other billionaire buddies.

As of December 19, 2025, TikTok announced it had signed a deal to spin off 80% of its U.S. assets to a group of American and global investors, with Oracle being one of the key players. Oracle, along with private equity firm #SilverLake and #MGX (an AI-focused investment firm backed by the government of Abu Dhabi), will each hold a 15% stake in the new joint venture, collectively owning 45% of the U.S. entity.

TikTok recently hired Israeli Defense Forces instructor Erica Mindel as content supervisor. She’s now in charge of censoring anything the IDF thinks is antisemitic, ya know like being Palestinian, or Lebanese or Syrian, or Egyptian or Persian, or whomever the IDF wants to bomb today.

China owning TikTok was a security risk, but the IDF controlling a propaganda channel? No problem!

Thankfully, we have the fediverse.