Trump: political influence · 26 Jan 2026

The USA has now lost even #TikTok as an independent platform and centralized it under a small jerk circle of MAGA connected owners, much like what happened with X.

And even shady Trump-deal crypto money is involved.

Here is the information (Or why democracy and free information can quickly disappear.)

➡️ When Attention, Data, Media and Crypto Rails Fall Into the Same Hands

Before even looking at ownership structures, something visible is already being discussed widely by creators.

Since the TikTok US restructuring, many creators who report critically or independently about political topics, including ICE killings and Trump related issues, report:

🔺massive reach collapse
🔺content marked ineligible for recommendation
🔺sudden visibility loss without deletion
🔺accounts restricted without clear explanation

You can find hundreds of firsthand reports across Reddit, Bluesky, X and creator communities.

These are user reports. The pattern is widely discussed.

Now look at the structure.

➡️ TikTok USDS relocated control:

The public narrative was that TikTok had to be separated from ByteDance due to concerns about Chinese influence.

What happened is that control of the US entity moved into a small group of domestic investors.

ByteDance still holds roughly 20 percent.

The rest sits with:
🔺Oracle
🔺Silver Lake
🔺MGX from Abu Dhabi
🔺other private investors

US user data now sits on Oracle infrastructure. Algorithm oversight for US users sits inside this new structure.

That means what hundreds of millions of Americans see daily is now shaped inside a small domestic ownership network with political proximity.

➡️ Oracle is not neutral infrastructure:

Oracle is controlled by Larry Ellison, a well known supporter of Trump.

His family recently expanded into media ownership through Paramount, which directly affects CBS and is attempting to expand further into the US media landscape.

At the same time Oracle is now:
🔺the custodian of TikTok US user data
🔺part of algorithm governance
🔺part of the trust and safety oversight structure

This means:

🔺media ownership
🔺data custody
🔺algorithm oversight

sit inside the same influence sphere.

This is how information influence historically emerges. Through ownership concentration.

➡️ The name rarely discussed is MGX:

MGX holds 15 percent of TikTok USDS.

Back in 2025 I reported that MGX invested 2000000000 into Binance using USD1, the stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial, a Trump family crypto drainer venture.

The money involved in the pardon of @cz_binance.

This is where social media, crypto and politics intersect structurally.

The same capital actor is present in:
🔺the dominant US short video attention platform
🔺the largest crypto exchange in the world
🔺a politically connected stablecoin gaining exchange level adoption

This is how influence scales across layers.

➡️ Modern influence does not require open censorship

It requires:

control over what gets amplified
control over what quietly disappears
control over where user data lives
control over which financial instruments gain adoption
control over media narratives through ownership

When the same network of billionaires and funds sits at all of those junctions, influence becomes structural and difficult to detect.

People experience it as:

🔺reach loss
🔺algorithm changes nobody can explain
🔺content suppression without deletion
🔺financial products appearing everywhere without organic demand

➡️ The uncomfortable reality:

The public was told TikTok had to be saved from foreign manipulation.

What replaced it is a structure where:

🔺a politically aligned billionaire controls the infrastructure
🔺a politically connected investment partner sits in ownership
🔺a politically connected stablecoin gains exchange legitimacy through the same network

All under the banner of national security.

This is control that is domestic, private and harder to question.

➡️ The broader media sphere around politically aligned billionaires

This concentration is not isolated to TikTok.

Around the same circle you find:

🔺Truth Social owned by Trump
🔺X owned by Elon Musk, a visible Trump ally
🔺Oracle controlling critical data infrastructure
🔺Paramount under Ellison family influence affecting CBS
🔺ongoing attempts to expand influence over additional major media assets
🔺financial backers appearing repeatedly across tech, media and crypto infrastructure

This creates an environment where platform ownership, data custody, media narratives and financial rails increasingly intersect within the same political and billionaire proximity.

➡️ Why this matters

This is not just about TikTok. Not just about crypto.

This is about how modern populations are informed, influenced and monetized.

When the same small circle sits at the center of:

🔺what people see
🔺what people trade
🔺what people hear in media
🔺what data is collected about them

you no longer have independent systems.

You have a tightly connected influence network.

History shows that when attention, finance, infrastructure and media ownership converge in politically aligned hands, the risk is not loud control.

The risk is subtle, structural influence that millions can feel but few can clearly map.

➡️ Why they hate Europe:

In Europe this concentration of power would be far harder.

Laws like the Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act and GDPR force a separation between platform power, data control, media ownership and political influence.

What happens easily in the US would trigger investigations across multiple countries in Europe.

Because platforms cannot be turned into political tools without consequences.

In Europe, tech billionaires hit legal walls.
In the US, far fewer.

🔺A democracy begins to erode the moment control over information concentrates in the hands of the few instead of remaining accessible to the many.

Authoritarian leaders/ dictators learned this long before the internet.

Control the media and you shape perception.
Shape perception and you shape reality for millions.

Hitler did not rely on violence alone. Independent newspapers were sidelined, radio centralized, film and print turned into carriers of state narrative. Many dissenting voices were not jailed at first. They were diluted, discredited, or pushed out of sight.

Mussolini moved the same way. Independent journalism was gradually replaced by loyal outlets. Information did not vanish overnight. It was filtered and reframed until the public no longer had access to an unfiltered picture of events.

This pattern appears again and again across countries and decades.

Political power merges with media ownership, with communication channels, and eventually with the infrastructure people rely on to exchange information.

The tools change over time.
The method does not.

Today it is no longer printing presses and radio towers.
It is platforms, algorithms, data centers, and ownership structures.

Many Americans do not understand that Europe is trying to prevent exactly this.

And that some US billionaires attack Europe for a reason.

It is not about regulation for the sake of regulation.

It is about making sure that extremely wealthy and powerful individuals cannot simply buy influence, platforms, narratives, and public opinion whenever they want.

One example out of many:
That is also why in the US people consume chlorine-washed chicken and countless substances that are banned in Europe or in other countrys for health reasons.

In the US, corporations are allowed to do it because it maximizes profit.

In Europe, regulations exist to protect consumers and to force companies that make money from people to do it in a fair, healthy, and responsible way.