Another Take: Is Silicon Valley going MAGA?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on August 2, 2024. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
Big names in Big Tech are in for a second Trump presidency, from Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, JD Vance, to millions of dollars in monthly campaign donations. What’s behind some tech billionaires’ embrace of the right, and how does their vision align with Trump's vision for America?
In this episode:
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Paris Marx (@parismarx), Host, Tech Won't Save Us
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Tamara Khandaker. The original production team was Marcos Bartolomé, Veronique Eshaya, Duha Mossad, Khaled Soltan, Manahil Naveed and our host Kevin Hirten, in for Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this episode. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, it's Tamara Ken Dacker, producer with the take, and this is another take where we revisit stories from the archives. |
| 0:19.0 | So an unexpected face popped up this week at Maraa-Lago, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's estate |
| 0:25.9 | in Florida. |
| 0:27.6 | It was Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta. |
| 0:31.5 | Trump had invited him to have dinner. |
| 0:34.7 | It's the latest and what looks like a reconciliation between the two, a possible |
| 0:40.3 | new chapter after years of tension. After the January 6th Capitol riot, Trump was kicked off |
| 0:48.1 | of Meta's platforms, Facebook, and Instagram, and he didn't take it well. Since then, he's been repeatedly slamming Zuckerberg for censorship |
| 0:58.2 | and accusing meta of plotting against him in the 2020 election. |
| 1:03.3 | But now, the two seem to be getting on friendlier terms, |
| 1:07.6 | mirroring a broader trend in Silicon Valley, |
| 1:10.6 | of big tech leaders embracing Trump and his |
| 1:13.6 | vision for the U.S. Over the summer, we looked at why this was happening. All references are from |
| 1:20.3 | August 2, 24. Today, big tech turns to Trump. |
| 1:39.4 | What they're trying to do is reframe Silicon Valley, not as this land of these big monopolies that have this massive |
| 1:44.9 | control over our lives, but is actually the land of startups. |
| 1:48.9 | A secret agenda to embed Silicon Valley into Trump's vision for America. |
| 1:56.0 | I'm Kevin Horton, and this is The Take. |
| 2:16.0 | These people are some of the richest people in the world, some of those powerful people in the world, and they want to be held up as, you know, the kind of saints that they used to be treated as. |
| 2:18.2 | We speak to Paris Marks. |
| 2:24.1 | I host a podcast called Tech Won't Save Us, and I wrote Road to Nowhere, what Silicon Valley gets wrong about the future of transportation. And I'm coming to you from St. John's |
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