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Too 2020 to Check: Did Big Tech Bury Platner's Scandals?

'Protection Racket': Tech Giants Reportedly Suppressed Negative Platner News for Seven Months

BIG TECH BLACKOUT? Study Accuses Apple, Google Of Shielding Platner Scandals

A conservative media watchdog is accusing Apple and Google of giving embattled former Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner months of political cover by allegedly buryin...

Apple and Google BURIED damaging Graham Platner stories, media report claims

Outrage over damaging scandals eventually forced Graham Platner out of the pivotal Senate race in Maine, but at least two media companies allegedly helped Democrats bury those stor...

Palantir’s real weak spot

Pushback to the tech group’s politics may threaten the core of its $330bn business

How Much Big Tech Companies Spend to Protect Their CEOs From Rising Threats

With threats against executives doubling year-over-year, companies like Meta and Google are spending tens of millions to safeguard CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai.

Tech stocks live: Huang, Nadella, and other CEOs defend open-source AI as US threatens crackdown

Why Tech’s Richest Founders Keep Their Billion-Dollar Foundations Offline

Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Reid Hoffman and Jensen Huang run vast foundations with little public access. Privacy, security and efficiency help explain why some of the world’s richest...

Ro Khanna calls for the right to oppose data centers to be protected

The congressman thinks it's time for a "Data Center Bill of Rights."

Hoelang blijft big tech de bondgenoot van de polder?

Washington’s Special Rules For Tech Oligarchs Reportedly Let Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Off Hook

by Nicole Silverio at CDN - Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley allegedly agreed to spare Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai from testifying in a scheduled...

"The Nerd Reich": Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy

A new book by longtime Bay Area journalist Gil Durán investigates “tech fascism” and its mounting influence on U.S. politics. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on...

This Journalist Says Tech Billionaires Are Trying to Take Over U.S. Democracy. Here’s What He Wants You to Know

The Nerd Reich, by journalist Gil Durán, parses the rising tide of authoritarianism embraced by leading tech investors and the ‘Network State’ ideology.

Group Spoils For Data Center Fight — But One Tech Giant Seemingly Gets Off Scot Free

by Dylan Kresak at CDN - A conservative nonprofit is organizing nationwide protests against AI data centers Saturday — but none of the protests target communities with Anthropic-a...

The Trust-Fund Wunderkinds Who Enabled Platner's Rise

Graham Platner, the accused rapist with a Nazi tattoo running for Senate in Maine, has reportedly told staff he will formally end his campaign on Monday-the deadline for Democrats...

‘No company is going to go to jail for you’: Proton’s CTO on balancing privacy, policy, and trust

Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the systems that run the world: I’m talking with Bart Butler, the CTO of Proton, the company that makes private and se...

THE NERD REICH

No one elected Elon Musk. The Constitution forbids him from becoming president. Yet, writes longtime San Francisco tech reporter Durán, he “found a workaround,” contributing almost...

Tech tries a new message: You'd love data centers if China wasn't making you hate data centers

There are lots of reasons Americans overwhelmingly oppose data centers. But for some tech types, it's just easier to blame China.

Palantir CEO slams Silicon Valley rivals who he says don't support US military

Palantir reported a significant revenue surge, exceeding analyst expectations. The company secured numerous high-value deals, boosting its financial performance. US commercial an...

'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be gover...

Why I Think Palantir's Moat Keeps Growing

Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center

Google has a difficult engineering problem at its enormous Fort Wayne data center: some of the land it wants to build on is protected wetlands. The search giant's solution is simpl...

How the Platner Campaign Imploded, and New Questions About Trump’s Qatari-Donated Jet

Plus, what Meta’s new A.I. push means for your Instagram pictures.

NYT played key role in hyping now-toxic Platner

Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a major media outlet’s role in promoting a terrible US Senate candidate. A New York Times columnist who has repeatedly risen t...