How Silicon Valley Became the ‘New Lobbying Monster’

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Big Tech-funded super PACs have spent hundreds of millions of dollars this election cycle to protect their interests in crypto and AI. In a piece for the New Yorker this month, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg says that “(n)ow that the tech industry has quietly become one of the most powerful lobbying forces in American politics, it is wielding that power as previous corporate special interests have: to bully, cajole, and remake the nation as it sees fit.” We’ll talk to Duhigg about how tech money is shaping this election. His article is called “Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster.” Guests: Charles Duhigg, journalist, The New Yorker; author of "Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection" and "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.5	Coming up on forum, a closer look at Silicon Valley's role in this year's election.
1:11.5	Big Tech-funded Super PACs have spent hundreds of millions of dollars this cycle on political
1:15.9	races, including U.S. Senate and House races, caring less about the candidate's party or the
1:22.3	balance of power in Congress, and more about who will best protect their interests in
1:27.2	crypto or AI.
1:29.5	For a long time, Silicon Valley firms consider themselves mostly detached from electoral politics,
1:34.8	says New Yorker investigative reporter Charles Duhigg.
1:37.7	We'll look at how Silicon Valley learned to play the game of politics and what that could
1:41.6	mean for 2024 and beyond.
1:56.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg says the tech industry has quietly become one of the most powerful lobbying forces in American politics.
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