Is Silicon Valley going MAGA?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
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:
- Paris Marx (@parismarx), Host, Tech Won't Save Us
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé and Veronique Eshaya with 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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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, big tech turns to Trump. |
| 0:13.6 | What they're trying to do is reframe Silicon Valley, not as this land of these big monopolies |
| 0:18.8 | that have this massive control over our lives, |
| 0:21.0 | but is actually the land of startups. |
| 0:23.6 | A secret agenda to embed Silicon Valley into Trump's vision for America. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take. These people are some of the richest people in the world, some of those powerful people in the world, |
| 0:46.3 | and they want to be held up as the kind of saints that they used to be treated as. |
| 0:51.2 | We speak to Paris Marx. |
| 0:54.5 | I host a podcast called Tech Won't Save Us, and I wrote Road to Nowhere, what Silicon |
| 0:58.7 | Valley gets wrong about the future of transportation. And I'm coming to you from St. John's |
| 1:03.4 | Newfoundland today on the east coast of Canada. Well, that sounds lovely. Paris, there are a million |
| 1:08.2 | topics we could talk to you about, but today we're going to be talking to you about Silicon Valley and the Republican Party, and specifically Donald Trump. |
| 1:16.8 | I think it's fair to say it's been a love-hate relationship over the years. |
| 1:21.0 | Twitter run by CEO Jack Dorsey, saying after close review of the president's recent tweets, it banned him due to the risk of further incitement of violence. |
| 1:30.1 | The president, President Trump, has been banned indefinitely from Facebook and Instagram |
| 1:35.1 | and at least until the end of his presidency. |
| 1:38.4 | And you know, Elon, I love Elon most. |
| 1:40.7 | Do we love him, I love. |
| 1:42.0 | But the relationship seems to be on an upswing with some big names in tech throwing their support behind the former president. |
| 1:49.2 | Billionaire CEO Elon Musk says he will donate to a new super PAC supporting former President Trump. |
| 1:56.3 | According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Musk has pledged to donate $45 million a month. |
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