Slate - Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America [View all]
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Trump news: The Paramount-Skydance merger reveals that Larry Ellison is actually in charge of America.
https://archive.ph/2025.07.26-201415/https://slate.com/technology/2025/07/larry-ellison-donald-trump-paramount-skydance-merger.html
"This week has demonstrated that the tech “broligarch” who’s most influenced President Donald Trump’s second administration isn’t Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or Marc Andreessen—it’s Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the 80-year-old software tycoon who recently became the second-richest man in the world.
Just look at everything that’s gone his way. On Thursday evening, the Federal Communications Commission finally voted to approve Paramount’s $8.4 billion merger with fellow entertainment firm Skydance Media. The controversial, long-awaited deal only came about thanks to Paramount’s appeals to this administration: settling a baseless lawsuit that Trump brought against 60 Minutes for “deceptively” editing its Kamala Harris interview, pressuring subsidiary CBS News to shift its “balance” in a right-wing direction, and canceling presidential foe and beloved comedian Stephen Colbert’s highly rated late-night talk show."
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