The Tech Elites Are Plotting Political Domination … in a Group Chat

The Group Chat From Hell Has Been Exposed

Chris Lehmann Marc Andreessen, Tucker Carlson, and a Winklevoss walk into a bar… and the rest of us run out of it screaming. The post The Group Chat From Hell Has Been Exposed appeared first on The Nation.

The Tech Elites Are Plotting Political Domination … in a Group Chat

The most interesting conversations in Silicon Valley are ones you can’t see—and Marc Andreessen can’t stop posting.

And then the Russian Apologists Left, Complaining about TDS - emptywheel

Ben Smith has a much-discussed story about what he admits is just one of innumerable online chat threads that create unseen but powerful nodes of opinion formation. The Signal chat Ben writes about is, he says, the single most important place in which a stunning realignment toward Donald Trump was shaped and negotiated, and an alliance between Silicon Valley and the new right formed. He says that, in part, based on the centrality of Marc Andrees…

Democracy dies in billionaire group chats

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The Group Chats of the Elite – Pixel Envy

Ben Smith, of Semafor, has a scoopy look inside the group chats of elite media and business figures, particularly those who pretend they are not. I often disagree with Smith’s framing — calling Christopher Rufo an “anti-woke conservative activist” and Richard Hanania a “conservative academic” dramatically undersells the vile views held by both — but the article successfully explores the coordination of these people. One thing is for certain: a S…