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by mullingitover 534 days ago
If the Chinese want to control our media they're going to have to get one of their citizens to get US citizenship first. Only then can that token citizen build a media empire and engage in a massive, decades-long propaganda campaign against us.
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The Australians have already accomplished this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch

As was repeated over, and over, and over again, the CEO of TikTok is Singaporean.
And you are being entirely pedantic or uninformed if you do not understand that the CCP controls TikTok with mechanisms like Golden Shares.
They'd also need to bribe lawmakers to add an exception to the foreign agents law that allows the Chinese to donate to people running for US office without needing to register as foreign agents.
There are other ways to donate to nonpolitician social media owners who then donate to politicians or support through their algorithm Like allow an individual who owns a big media platform to have the first fully foreign owned auto factory in China. In Musk's case it was before the Twitter purchase so not saying that's what happened there, just that that kind of thing is an avenue.
> US citizenship first

Li Hongzhi / EpocheTimes intensifies.