The Right's Radicalization

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Elon musk has been radicalized in sort of the sense of radicalization that we sometimes talk about. Bill mar as well who you know has kind of become like an anti-woke crusader and used to be someone who identified as being on the left. tech is doing to try to push this type of politics into the mainstream, he says. It's a problem in part because the range of acceptable debate and political representation is very narrow but it would be easier to be angry about rfk junior if there were better alternatives or if the democrats had policy or political responses to a guy like elon musk.

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss how the right-wing of the tech industry are funding media platforms like Rumble to reshape the political discourse and why they’re helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenge Joe Biden.

Jacob Silverman is a journalist and the co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. He’s also the host of The Naked Emperor on CBC Podcasts. You can check out Jacob’s Substack.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

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