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Thursday, January 16, 2025

America's Tech Oligarchy

A lesson for oligarchs: politics can be deadly
https://www.ft.com/content/503ceb0b-651d-491c-b54e-6a0ecbb3bb09
The emergence of a powerful tech elite close to Donald Trump has jarring echoes with Russia. 

Elon Musk’s hostile takeover: Inside the mind of the billionaire at the heart of American power.

Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice 
 
The Cravenness of Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.ft.com/content/682ca921-ccfd-445e-b486-94f4b8542b12
Changes to the fact-checking regime at Meta make it look like he’s caving in to Trump. 

Related: https://youtu.be/OfLmVj3-GXU


 
Crypto’s Unholy Choir
Andrés Velasco (a former finance minister of Chile, is Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science):
Ever since bitcoin was launched a decade and a half ago, crypto has been a solution in search of a problem. What is new is the chorus of deceivers, demagogues, dictators, and tax dodgers trying to convince us otherwise.