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- Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook/Instagram (issued the statements in late Aug 2024 about Biden administration pressuring about censoring Covid-related info)

- Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of LA Times/San Diego Union Tribune, and other newspapers, LA Lakers, billionaire biotech person

- Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, owner of Time magazine

- Laurene Powell Jobs, billionaire widow of Steve Jobs, owns The Atlantic Monthly

- Masayoshi Son, Softbank CEO, USA Today/Gannet media group owned by New Media Investment Group via Fortress Investment group via Softbank

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- Michael Bloomberg (former mayor of New York city) owns Bloomberg

- Sumner Redstone owns Paramount/Viacom/CBS

- Thomson family (Canada) owns Thomson Reuters via Woodbridge Company

- Brain L. Roberts, CEO Comcast, son of company founder, NBCUniversal, Sky Group, owned via 33% controlling supershares

- Donald Newhouse, son of company founder, Conde Nast (New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue), newspapers, controlling stake in Discovery Comms.

- John Malone, former CEO of TCI cable, largest shareholder of Liberty Media, et al.



Thank you for educating me. I had no idea.




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