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#Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of #TikTok, …as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the #UnitedStates….

Various parties who have been involved in the talks do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously, the people said. The bid came via an offer letter addressed to Vice President #JDVance & #HowardLutnick, the #commerce secy….

#USpol #Trump #broligarchy #JeffBezos #law #tech #Antitrust
nytimes.com/2025/04/02/busines

Amazon’s bid highlights the last-minute maneuvering in Washington over TikTok’s ownership.
The New York Times · Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.By Lauren Hirsch
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“Is legacy media dead?” asks @parkermolloy for @damemagazine. She looks at how, with newspaper owners interfering in the work of their reporters, independent media sources are the ones holding power to account. “What independent journalism offers that legacy media increasingly doesn’t is transparency about where it’s coming from. There’s no pretense of objectivity that masks institutional biases and billionaire influence,” she writes. “Readers know what they’re getting, which paradoxically can build more trust than false neutrality.”

damemagazine.com/2025/03/19/is

Dame Magazine - · Is Legacy Media Dead? - Dame MagazineThere was a time when people collectively agreed on what constituted "the news." Walter Cronkite would sign off with "And that's the way it is," and most Americans nodded along. The New York Times was the "paper of record," and if something appeared in its pages, it existed as fact in our shared reality. That

While it’s difficult to avoid the asshats* (and “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” notwithstanding), given Amazon Ireland has launched this week, just remember that every euro you pay them goes toward fucking billionaire Jeff Bezos who is helping Trump dismantle democracy in the US and elsewhere. So please do your best to shop locally – or with smaller EU shops – and avoid Amazon as much as you can.

* I really need to get the media for my Mastodon server off of AWS. Another bloody hassle I don’t need right now. *smdh*

#FYI #community #resist #resistance #stopcapitalism #DismantleTheSystem #boycott #EconomicBoycott #EconomicBlackout #boycott #Amazon #Jeffbezos #Bezos #AmazonBoycott

Boycott Amazon 07. - 14. March 2025 Last day! That was easy, wasn't it? ^.^

We won't stop --> make it a month --> continue --> We got this! ^.^

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