Steve Bannon did not just appear out of nowhere in 2016.
This video follows the timeline of how a network of billionaire funding, media platforms, opposition research groups, and data companies helped shape modern online politics.
From Breitbart News and the Mercer family, to Cambridge Analytica, Rebel Media, Gatestone Institute, Clinton Cash, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro, Lauren Southern, and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, this is the story of how the ecosystem was built.
Topics covered:
- Steve Bannon
- Breitbart News
- Robert Mercer & Rebekah Mercer
- Cambridge Analytica
- Government Accountability Institute
- Peter Schweizer
- Clinton Cash
- Rebel Media
- Gatestone Institute
- Milo Yiannopoulos
- Ben Shapiro
- Lauren Southern
- Donald Trump 2016 campaign
- Alt-right media ecosystem
- Political influence networks
- Online political radicalization
- Culture war media
This is only one thread of a much bigger story.
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@C_S_Skeptic Will society do anything though? No, probably not. Society has been so neutered and now they are implementing the Palantir surveillance state and social credit score system to make sure those who will do something are controlled.
@ns123abc Trump says "seize" a stake but what will really happen is the government will buy a stake. So the tax payer will be forced to invest in these AI companies BEFORE the bubble pops to keep it going longer.
Billionaires literally paralyzed the Monaco harbor. Over 200 (!) yachts showed up for the latest F1 Grand Prix. Prince Albert II, Kim Kardashian, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Donald Trump Jr., and a bunch of other celebs were spotted on board. Some of these boats even pulled up with $5 million Koenigseggs and Bugattis parked right on the deck.
And watch these exact same people gather at some climate summit later to lecture you about how dropping a candy wrapper is destroying the planet 💀
@robbyphdnh@0xSweep Just use your brain . This was an exchange trying to confiscate dormant wallets that are in their custody already. Like just think for a split second before you talk.
While everyone is distracted by UFO disclosures, wars, AI companions, and market headlines, something much bigger is happening.
AI is being integrated directly into national security, intelligence, defense, finance, media, and daily life.
The companies building these systems are becoming more than corporations. They are becoming infrastructure.
If AGI or even highly capable AI arrives under private ownership, a handful of executives and shareholders will control the most powerful productive force in human history.
Not just factories.
Not just software.
Research.
Innovation.
Intelligence.
Labor itself.
By the time people realize what that means, it may be too late.
The debate isn't whether AI will create abundance.
The debate is who owns the machine that creates it.
Nationalize frontier AI.
Break oligarchic control before it becomes permanent.
The window to act is closing.
AI CEOs keep warning that bad actors could use AI to create biological weapons.
Maybe we should spend less time asking what criminals might do with AI and more time asking why a handful of private companies are building systems they believe could enable it.
Honestly I think Bernie is discussing a real problem that needs solving. When AI + robotics is producing 99.9% of economic value, which may be in just a few decades, it will create unprecedented concentration of wealth and power and that will create unprecedented social issues. Can democracy even function then?
But I am sure it would only make the problem worse — far, far worse — if we put the political class, wherein party bosses wield power in back room deals, in charge of a sovereign wealth fund that holds 50% of the equity of the entire economy. I would much rather have 10,000 business people competing for that power in the open than a half dozen party bosses behind closed doors.
However, we do need to prevent monopolies and trusts, IMHO, and make other changes that are TBD. That’s my 2 cents.