"This concentration of media ownership under David Ellison is a worrisome instance of vertical integration in the AI age. Oracle is a technology company, not a media company, but its hosting, processing, and cloud services are very much embedded in the media chain of ownership.
Control of what counts as the news, and how content gets delivered and consumed, is a major geopolitical concern. Capture of that media leaves mass communication vulnerable to manipulation by vested interests. The US government under Trump is aggressively pursuing this centralization of control; the administration has made it abundantly clear that any attempt at regulating powerful US technology companies overseas is an aggressive affront to trade, and tantamount to “censorship.”
During a recent Open Markets Institute conference in Brussels called “The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI,” Roger MacNamee, an early Silicon Valley investor and now a critic of Big Tech, described ascendant AI companies as “breathing new life into old monopolies.” Big Tech companies have long wielded dominance over economic policy and culture, but the regulatory challenges are finally spilling over to issues surrounding media ownership."
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/bari-weiss-youre-being-captured-cbs-paramount-skydance-ellison.php