After serving to to get their “bro” Donald Trump elected in america, are the tech billionaire “broligarchs” now making an attempt to unfold their reactionary revolution to Europe? If their activism in latest weeks is something to go by, their sights seem set on influencing the European political agenda.
Thus, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and an in depth adviser to Trump, frequently floods X, the social community he purchased in 2022, with posts calling for the resignation of British Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, or expressing assist for the German far proper. Musk has falsely accused Starmer of getting coated up paedophile rings when he was Director of Public Prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, and claimed that “solely the AfD can save Germany”, earlier than internet hosting a sympathetic interview lasting over an hour with the celebration’s chief, Alice Weidel.
Then there may be Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, the father or mother firm of Fb, Instagram and Whatsapp, who just lately took goal at European laws on digital companies and competitors, which he blames for limiting freedom of expression and penalising American corporations. Zuckerberg additionally introduced that he had abolished fact-checking on content material posted on his platform.
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