TikTok will soon have new American oligarch overlords. If Donald Trump is to be believed, Lachlan Murdoch, Michael Dell, and Larry Ellison are potential investors in a deal to keep the social-media giant in the United States. Trump has been actively thwarting legislation, signed into law under Joe Biden with bipartisan majorities, to force a sale to the U.S. because TikTok is currently owned by ByteDance, which has close ties to the Chinese government. If members of Congress under Biden rightly sweated the implications of a Chinese Communist Party–linked social-media platform holding sway over American citizens, the outcome of American TikTok ownership could mean censorship of a different kind — against pro-Palestine content, which has proliferated on the platform.

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