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Buying the Narrative: Ellison, Weiss, and Israel’s DesperationLarry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire who has poured millions into the IDF, seems to be quietly building himself a media empire at the very moment support for Israel is collapsing in the United States.His son David has already taken control of Paramount/CBS, and talks are underway to bring Bari Weiss’s Free Press into the fold, giving her an influential editorial role. Now there are reports of bids being prepared for Warner Bros Discovery, which would place CNN under the Ellison umbrella. And now there are rumours about positioning to acquire TikTok alongside Andreessen Horowitz.If true, this looks like the desperate consolidation of narrative control. When the tide of public opinion turns, when younger generations are rejecting the old propaganda lines, the only weapon left is to seize the platforms through which people see and interpret the world.