TikTok’s forced sale isn’t about “security” — it’s about control of the feed

Trump’s deal to force ByteDance out of TikTok is being sold as “national security.” In reality, it’s a transfer of power from one set of elites to another. The buyers? Larry Ellison (Oracle), Michael Dell, Fox Corp, and foreign money from Abu Dhabi.

That means the same billionaires who bankroll campaigns and run cable news will soon shape the algorithm that 170 million Americans scroll every day. Gen Z’s main news source could quietly become a propaganda machine — boosting what helps their side, burying what doesn’t.

ByteDance may still get a profit-share, but the real prize is influence. Whoever controls the feed controls the story.

They didn’t buy an app. They bought the future attention span of America.