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Tech billionaires want to get richer. Trump is already helping them.

Tech billionaires want to get richer. Trump is already helping them.

It's Been a Minute vor 1 Jahr

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President Trump is no stranger to buddying up with the ultra rich,
and that was on full display at his inauguration. Tech CEOs
billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos were
lined up at the proceeding. But beyond the optics, what policies
are these CEOs and the new president working on together?

Brittany is joined by NPR's tech correspondent Bobby Allyn and The
Atlantic's Ashley Parker to answer the question: is America a "tech
oligarchy?" And what examples from Trump's first week in office
point to that?

For more, read Ashley Parker's piece "The Tech Oligarchy Arrives"
in The Atlantic.

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