Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy
Journalist Gil Duran argues in his book The Nerd Reich that a powerful cohort of Silicon Valley billionaires, inspired by fringe ideologies and long-held anti-democratic beliefs, are actively working to dismantle American democracy and replace it with corporate-controlled city-states or
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