Tech Industry and Political Alliances: A Critical Examination

The New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Elon Musk’s seizure of power within the U.S. government, the tech industry’s slide into right-wing politics, and how the ideology of techno-fascism is taking root in Silicon Valley. Can the populists and the technologists coexist in Donald Trump’s Washington? 

This week’s reading:

• “Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency,” by Kyle Chayka
• “The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction,” by Kyle Chayka
• “Make South Africa Great Again?,” by Isaac Chotiner
• “Elizabeth Warren Fights to Defend the Consumer Protection Agency She Helped Create,” by John Cassidy
• “A Fistfight Over Donald Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard,” by Emma Green

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