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Ellison, Bezos, and Other Oligarchs Turning US Media into a MAGA Propaganda Empire

Monday, October 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump’s billionaire backers (Ellison, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, and Murdoch) are turning America’s news industry into a MAGA propaganda machine. They’re gutting journalism for profit and power, while pretending it’s free speech. iPINIONS sees this as a silent coup reshaping America’s media landscape. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/ellison-bezos-and-other-oligarchs Read more.

Threads Is Becoming the eX-Twitter Killer… After All

Friday, July 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Just a year ago, I once declared Threads dead on arrival. Now it’s quietly kicking Elon’s X into irrelevance — no cage match required. From bots and hate speech to fleeing advertisers and Grok’s antisemitic meltdown, X is imploding. Meanwhile, Threads is gaining ground on users, credibility, and momentum. Turns out iPINIONS was wrong, but… Read more.

Musk Rebrands Twitter ‘X’ After Threatening to Sue Zuckerberg Over Threads

Monday, July 24, 2023 at 1:05 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Elon Musk has become to business what Donald Trump is to politics. And, from the day he launched his bid to buy Twitter, Musk has been hellbent on making that antic analogy a reality. Musk threatens to sue Zuckerberg Rash and reckless decisions have defined Trump’s political activities. They have defined Musk’s business activities too. So it… Read more.

Facebook’s Teaser Outage…

Saturday, October 9, 2021 at 7:04 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Mark Zuckerberg denied his 3.5 billion users the ability to get high (er, likes) on Facebook and Instagram for nearly six hours on Monday. But if you believe his configuration story about this outage, you probably believe Donald Trump’s fraud story about the 2020 presidential election. I think the temperamental Zuckerberg just reacted in a… Read more.

Social Media Should Ban Political Ads

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 6:13 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Twitter: the case for banning political ads Last week, Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter would ban all political ads. The media lionized him. Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, said political ads, including manipulated videos and the viral spread of misleading information, presented challenges to civic discourse, ‘all at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.’ He… Read more.

Fake News Billionaire…

Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 7:56 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Speaking to a live audience at Georgetown University on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s role in providing a voice to more than 2 billion people of around the world. While he admitted that some types of misinformation can do harm, Zuckerberg said that Facebook and other tech companies shouldn’t be the ones to… Read more.

UPDATE! Zuckerberg Confesses: Our Bad. But Let’s Still Be Friends

Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 8:05 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Mark Zuckerberg finally found the courage this afternoon to address betrayed Facebook users. He posted a lengthy statement on his FB page, which I can fairly summarize in two sentences: I’ve been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn’t happen again. I know it takes longer to fix all… Read more.

Zuckerberg Designed Facebook ‘Like’ an Opioid

Monday, November 13, 2017 at 7:21 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

So, with all due respect to Karl Marx, who needs religion when the masses have Facebook…? It turns out that your brain on Facebook is like an egg in a frying pan. This, in effect, is what none other than Facebook’s founding president, Sean Parker, has confessed: The unintended consequences [is that] it literally changes… Read more.