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This is on point. I'm Megyn Chakrabardi.

Elon Musk has president-elect Donald Trump's ear.

He's part of the Department of Government Efficiency that Trump wants to create.

Moreover, Musk's Super PAC paid for the Trump campaign's ground game in swing states.

But he's not the only tech billionaire in politics right now.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is on the transition team of San Francisco

Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie. Peter Thiel has famously influenced the thinking of vice president-elect

J.D. Vance. And LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman poured money, time, and his connections into the Harris

presidential campaign.

So the bros of big tech are no longer just wielding technology and wielding their money.

They're also rapidly gaining political power too.

They're becoming a, quote, broligarchy to borrow the phrase from Carol Cudwallader, a reporter for The Guardian.

In an essay this month, Cudwallader writes, quote, we had eight years to hold Silicon Valley to account, and we failed utterly, end quote.

By the way, Carol Cudwalader is one of the reporters who first broke the story of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook way back in 2016. We'll talk about that a little bit later. But now, Codwalader is writing that we live in a world, quote, where elections are downstream from white men talking on platforms that white men built,

juiced by the invisible algorithms are broligarch overlords control.

This is culture now, end quote.

So to borrow a phrase from the scholar Shoshana Zuboff,

another way of putting it is that this is where surveillance capitalism fuses with American political power. So how will this new oligarchy shape your world? Well, Adam Siegel

joins us now. He's chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the

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