Court Painter with portrait of tech billionaire Peter Thiel
Court Painter with portrait of tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg
Court Painter with portrait of tech billionaire Elon Musk
Democracy Now,June 5/2025
Democracy Now is joined by award-winning investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who in 2018 exposed the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal and is now taking on what she terms the “broligarchy,” the billionaire Silicon Valley businessmen who now wield major influence in U.S. government and society.
“This is a new type of power, and the world hasn’t seen this before, in which you have state power now with this enormous surveillance engine machine,”
says Cadwalladr. She warns that the increasing authoritarianism of the Trump administration is being facilitated by unregulated surveillance technology. “People should be freaked out. …
“They want as much information about the population as possible, so that they can surveil them, they can control them, they can search out their enemies, they can target them, and they can punish them, and they can silence them.”
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Court Painter with portrait of billionaire Donald J Trump
Court Painter with portrait of tech billionaire Alex Karp CEO of Palantir Technologies
Court Painter looking resplendent in dark times.