It is no secret that the Trump regime in the United States seeks to crush any and all dissent. One of the tactics is endless litigation of media behemoths. The other is through the mere threat of litigation. The recent firing and rehiring of comedian Jimmy Kimmel attests to the latter. In that case, the threat failed. But the regime isn’t finished in its ongoing quest to transform American media into either toothless infotainment or an arm of fascist state propaganda.
The American media landscape is already dominated by a small group of wealthy companies. And conservative tech billionaires own social media. Despite this, there has been some measure of freedom of speech and expression, at least in regard to the minimal requirement for journalistic integrity.
But the US is inextricably linked to Israel, its most important colonial asset. And defending the genocidal state at all costs, even if it fractures its Maga base, has become one of the current regime’s primary objectives. Threatening litigation isn’t the only thing they have in their bag of tricks. Buying up all the means of communication and filling it with sycophants seems to be their latest plan. It is manufactured consent on steroids.
Case in point: wealthy Zionist Larry Ellison and his son David, have been busy buying up as many media platforms as they can. The cringe-inducing duo have longstanding ties to Israel and have vociferously defended its murderous attacks against the Palestinians from day one. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, has been the biggest private donor to the IDF. Oracle itself is little more than an Israeli colonial apparatus with cultish devotion to the genocidal project. Now the father and son seek to eradicate all dissent by curtailing journalism and muzzling content creators and independent media.
David Ellison bought Paramount. Now he aims to turn the mammoth media outlet CBS into a mouthpiece for Israel. And he is giving the keys to Bari Weiss.
Ever the suck up to the uber-wealthy, Weiss started her lackluster career by going after professors who dared speak out about Palestine without consulting her. She went on to a hackneyed stint at the New York Times where she trotted out stale, bromidic pabulum about the supposed perils of “woke culture.” Essentially, regurgitating the grievances of far-right intellectual poseurs and blowhards like Jordan Peterson.
Weiss, who has used her virtually unknown platform “The Free Press” to spread the most vicious and mendacious apologia for genocide, will likely use CBS as a tool of Zionist propaganda. She has made no secret of the marriage of her devotion to the racist state and her “journalism.” Her holocaust apologetics have been seemingly endless, from pieces that deny the Israeli policy of starvation to blaming Palestinians for their suffering and murder.
With Weiss in tow, the Ellison’s are now planning the takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. According to the Wall Street Journal: the “bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio,” which includes “HBO Max” along with “CNN, TBS, and TNT.” It seems apparent that this whole genocide thing has made them all itchy, especially with public sentiment beginning to turn.
This is why wealthy Zionists have their sights set on social media. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, TikTok. They understand that the biggest threat to their hegemonic control of the narrative comes from ordinary people sounding the alarm. People who are not intimidated by legacy media and its complicity with fascism and genocide. If they succeed in taking over these platforms, they will rapidly censor or shadow ban any voice that challenges their approved storyline.
But regardless of these monied and high stakes plans and mergers, the jig is up for both Israel and the American Empire. No media putsch can alter their joint trajectories. Both entities are in a state of rot, chaos and marked decline. So, these attempts to seize the microphone appear more like acts of desperation than a hostile takeover. These media outlets are the vestiges of a dying era, with most of Gen Z ignoring them completely. And young people have found creative ways to utilize or subvert social media to their advantage.
No one can unsee the horror the Zionist state has and continues to mete out on a defenseless people imprisoned in the world’s largest, open-air concentration camp. No one can unhear the cries of little Hind as she sat in a car wounded and surrounded by her dead family as Israeli tanks closed in around her. No one can forget the nearly two year campaign of complete annihilation of Gaza.
And these media giants are powerless against the most damning aspect of this genocide: the egos of the genocidaires themselves. Most of the evidence has come from IDF soldiers who have proudly posted their crimes on social media. Or from the IDF commanders who have leveled nearly every hospital, school, mosque, bakery and farm in Gaza. Or Israeli media that has platformed openly genocidal voices. Or from Israeli politicians who talk openly about their hatred of every Palestinian, including children, labeling them all as “terrorists.” Or their intention to starve the captive population. Or their plans to “redevelop” Gaza for illegal settlement.
The Ellison family is one of the wealthiest on the planet. They may soon surpass Elon Musk in being the richest. But they haven’t been paying close attention to the reality that wealth does not beget popularity. Nor does it command people to listen to you. Musk is a prime example of this. The ketamine-addled Nazi has seen his status plummet in recent months. He has become a running joke and punchline. And none of his ill-gotten riches can alter the public perception of him being an unhinged buffoon.
Israel and the US are in a similar state. Both are seen as a pariah. Their image is tainted by genocidal mania, sadism and fascist nihilism. Their citizens are increasingly being shunned when they travel abroad and their allies are beginning to distance themselves from the embarrassment.
They may be able to shutdown dissent or stifle journalistic principles in major American media and even silence some content creators or independent platforms, but they cannot undo what has been done. They cannot sponge away the blood from their hands. The evidence is far too damning. The mountain of corpses is far too high. And we have all seen too much to ever let them forget any of it.
Kenn Orfanos, September 2025
Kenn Orfanos 