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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Forced TikTok Sale—and Rising Censorship—Is for Israel, Not China

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Rumble

Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Glenn breaks down the forced sale of TikTok and why it poses a threat to free speech in the US, especially for Israel's critics. 

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0:00.0

The forced sale of TikTok was consummated this week.

0:12.0

It was sold to a consortium led by, among others, Larry Ellison, who is the richest

0:18.9

or second richest person on the planet, as well as not coincidentally.

0:23.3

The largest ever private donor to friends of the IDF, he's the person who just brought

0:29.8

Paramount and CBS through his son, David Ellison, and then Stalled Barry Weiss, another Israel loyalist

0:35.7

as head of the newsroom at CBS News, is also trying to buy Warner Brothers and Discovery and CNN, which is all part of the same property.

0:44.2

All as support for Israel is unraveling.

0:46.7

And this for sale of TikTok, which was originally known as the TikTok ban, it said either TikTok has to be sold to parties the government approves of, the U.S.

0:56.2

government approves of, or it will be banned, is the subject of immense disinformation. There's a lot

1:01.8

of discussion of it this week in the media as a result of the consummation of this sale to

1:07.0

this consortium led by Larry Alaston and Oracle. And it's amazing to listen to these accounts, to read these accounts that are completely

1:15.2

false about exactly what happened that led up to the TikTok ban or the for sale and why

1:20.8

exactly it happened.

1:22.5

It didn't happen because of concerns over China.

1:26.7

It happened.

1:30.0

And this doesn't take a conspiracy theory. Every person involved in it will tell you it explicitly and has said it publicly. It happened because

1:35.2

there was a perception that the reason American, young Americans were turning against Israel

1:41.1

was because there was too much anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian content

1:45.1

allowed on TikTok. And it need to be put into the hands of Israel supporters and Israel loyalists

1:50.8

in order to take away this important instrument that Americans had been using to speak with one

1:56.3

another freely about sensitive topics, including Israel. And the censorship has already started because that was the whole point of all of this.

2:04.1

And I don't want you to take my word for it.

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