Media Capture: Who Controls the Story Controls the Future

Tech oligarchs are capturing America’s media system. They’re doing it through three interconnected strategies: buying media companies outright, creating financial dependency through funding and artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships, and controlling the platforms where most people get their information. MediaJustice's new report maps how that capture works, who’s driving it, and why it matters for communities of color and organizers fighting for racial justice. What you need to know:

1. Tech oligarchs are buying up media companies.
2. Tech companies are building financial dependency with the newsrooms that are supposed to hold them accountable.
3. AI partnerships are accelerating the capture.
4. Tech platforms control where most people get their information, and that control is growing.
5. Larry Ellison is a new kind of oligarch.