1, who bought the social media network Twitter and rebranded it as X, and Mark Zuckerberg, who runs Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram. Conservative media captureThe United States has seen a tremendous amount of conservative media capture since Donald Trump returned to the White House. Data collection is a given with social media generally, but now that power rests partly with Ellison, who has gotten rich off such technology. Just imagine what he could do with a large social media network like TikTok. Rather and others are right that the Ellison duo taking over both CBS and CNN, as well as controlling a major social media network like TikTok, would be dangerous for democracy.