Why These Tech Billionaires Are Spying On Kids & What They Intend To Do Next
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Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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We are joined by journalist Taylor Lorenz to discuss what tech billionaires want with our information and how they're fooling politicians.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, I'm joined by journalist Taylor Lorenz Taylor. |
| 0:07.8 | There is some really disturbing story reporting coming out of the paper formerly known |
| 0:13.7 | as the Washington Post. |
| 0:15.4 | Kylie, pop this up. |
| 0:18.1 | Exclusive pro-Trump activists are circulating a draft executive order alleging Chinese interference in the 2020 election proposing a national emergency to surprise, surprise, expand presidential power over voting, like banning mail ballots and voting machines. |
| 0:40.3 | And then there's another headline here that J.B. Pritzker popped up. |
| 0:45.3 | Trump seeking executive power over elections is urged to declare emergency. |
| 0:51.3 | Activists say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating |
| 0:56.2 | a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. |
| 1:03.4 | It's been a while since I have had my civics class, Taylor, but it's my understanding that |
| 1:08.1 | the Constitution exclusively says that voting is up to the states. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah, absolutely. I think this is just, I mean, it's wild because they're just doing it all out |
| 1:18.6 | so in the open now. And it's also just revealing, like, it's really mad libs with them. It's like, |
| 1:24.7 | China, voting, you know what I mean? When has China interfered directly in our |
| 1:29.5 | voting system? This was not even an allegation that they were trying to make until recently. It's just |
| 1:33.8 | absurd. I also think you have the Nicholas Maduro who Donald Trump, the government got, and now |
| 1:43.1 | they want him to say that 2020 was meddled with, and I guarantee you the fixes |
| 1:48.2 | in, he's going to give Nicholas Maduro a pardon. |
| 1:52.1 | And so like you said, they telegraph exactly what they're going to do, especially loose |
| 1:56.9 | lips, dementia ridden kinks. |
| 1:58.7 | He's always showing his hands, right? So the people that |
| 2:03.5 | fund him, when we look at these oligarchs, Jeff Bezos is $45 million richer, then you get to |
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