When America's megarich own the media

In recent weeks, it has been announced that centibillionaire Larry Ellison is set to lead a takeover of TikTok in America. — AFP

THE “attention economy” is a term I first heard about some time ago, probably in a talk about how in the future, the resource corporations will be fighting each other over is your attention.

If they control your attention, and the information you are receiving, it can be argued that they control everything.