Seven Billionaires, One Storyline

When the same people who build the spy tools own the news, ordinary people are not “informed”. They are managed.

1. Stop laughing at “state media”

Americans love to point at China or Russia and say:
“Look, they have state media. We have a free press.”

That comfort story does not match reality anymore.

What we have now is a third model:

• The security state and Pentagon give huge contracts to a few tech and cloud companies.

• Those companies grow into the backbone of search, maps, social media, cloud and AI.

• The same billionaires then buy TV networks, newsrooms and streaming platforms.

On paper, it is all private.
In practice, it looks like outsourced propaganda.

The government does not need to call every editor. It just writes the laws, signs the checks, and lets friendly billionaires set the tone.