Lowkey’s video is a breakdown of who actually controls the platforms people use every day. Not in an abstract “tech ethics” way — in a very real “your screen is being managed by people with military and political agendas” way.
The companies buying into TikTok aren’t random investors. They’re tied into Israeli military contracts, U.S. defense money, Gulf surveillance networks, and billionaire family offices that treat information as weapons. When you line up the names, the tenders, the leaked emails, and the public statements, the picture is nothing less than authoritarian: the people who benefit from controlling the narrative now own the infrastructure that delivers it.
Oracle isn’t a bystander — it’s inside the system
Safra Catz, Oracle’s CEO, literally bragged about walking through the Kirya — Israel’s military headquarters — and seeing her own Oracle employees in IDF uniforms. She called it her “proudest moment.” Then she said there were things Oracle did for the Israeli military that she “can’t talk about.”
This is the same company now handling TikTok’s U.S. data and algorithm oversight.
So the platform that shapes what hundreds of millions of people see every day is partly run by a corporation whose leadership openly collaborates with a foreign terrorist military and brags about it on the world stage.
The private equity trail isn’t neutral either
Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik — through Susquehanna — hold a massive stake in TikTok’s global structure. Their foundation has funded Friends of the IDF and the Central Fund of Israel, which has been linked to settlement expansion. These aren’t passive investors. They’re politically involved, financially involved, and ideologically aligned.
Yuri Milner’s investment arm is also in the ownership mix. Milner has a long personal relationship with Netanyahu and was questioned during corruption investigations. Again — not neutral.
Michael Dell’s family office is another shareholder. Dell’s company won a $150 million Israeli Ministry of Defense tender funded by U.S. military aid. The same family money now buying into TikTok is the money supplying the IDF’s hardware backbone.
This is all about Israel.
The UAE’s surveillance giants are in the room too
MGX — a joint venture between Mubadala and G42 — also owns a piece of TikTok.
Mubadala has a $1.1 billion stake in Israel’s Tamar gas field. They also invested $50 million into the fund that owns NSO Group, the company behind Pegasus spyware — the same spyware used to target journalists and dissidents around the world.
G42 is the UAE’s main AI and surveillance powerhouse.
So now you’ve got Israeli military contractors, U.S. defense-linked billionaires, and Gulf surveillance firms all sitting on top of the ownership structure of the app that shapes the worldview of half the planet under 30.
If that doesn’t have raise every single alarm, nothing will.
Why this is happening now
Young people aren't buying the official narratives anymore. They are seeing unfiltered footage from Gaza, the West Bank, and everywhere else governments prefer to keep out of sight. They aren't waiting for cable news to tell them what happened. They are watching it themselves.
You can’t stop people from filming.
You can’t stop people from posting.
But you can buy the platform and decide who gets seen.
This isn’t about “mind control.” It’s about control, period
It’s something much simpler and much more effective:
throttle certain words
bury certain videos
boost others
shape what trends
shape what doesn’t
decide which emotions get rewarded
decide which ones get punished
That’s it.
That’s their whole game.
And the people running that game now are tied into militaries, intelligence units, settlement networks, and surveillance companies — all tied to Israel.
The bottom line
The question isn’t “What are we watching?”
It’s “Who is deciding what we’re allowed to see?”
And right now, the answer is a tight circle of billionaires, defense contractors, and political actors who have every (Israeli) reason to manage public perception — especially when it comes to Palestine, war, surveillance, and state violence.
This is ownership and ownership always comes with an agenda…an Israeli one.
