The Power

3 days ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

Carole,Could the tariffs actually be a leverage point for Trump to force other nations to allow unrestricted unregulated access to their populations by Silicon Valley? This would give Meta, Google, Nividia, etc the same power in all western democracies that they enjoy in the United States to form enough manipulation, brain washing , and control via social media, via right wing g populism. The only time Donald Trump really made money was through licensee deals, correct ?

3 days ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

A note on what I’m doing and why. I’m an investigative journalist who worked for the Guardian for 20 years latterly investigating the intersection of politics and technology that included 2018’s exposé of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal. The opaque and unaccountable Silicon Valley companies that facilitated both Brexit and Trump are now key players in an accelerating global axis of autocracy. I believe this is a new form and type of power: Broligarchy.

6 days ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

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6 days ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

This is just a quick note to say that I’m hosting a Substack Live with two of the most interesting thinkers on where tech meets culture in a few hours’ time. This is being hosted on the new Citizens Reunited Substack, details below. Do join, or I’ll send out the video in this week’s newsletter. V best, Carole The Citizens·May 6Big Tech, its algorithms and its rapacious business model are flattening our culture and fleecing creatives.

1 week ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

It could be Musk is a clever 5th column something shown in Carole’s discussion with his friend. The more dangerous close and influential to Trump are Steve Bannon and Navarro with no love lost with Musk. Musk is NOT a broligarch but a man in a hurry- previously a democrat supporter of Obama Clinton and in 2020 Andrew Yang (dem POTUS candidate)He suffered 4yrs of Biden dismissal of Tesla EV, Starlink etc - nasty Elizabeth Warren broadcasting he paid no tax when he paid $11billion.