Show Notes
US Big Tech corporations based in Silicon Valley are manipulating politics across the world. Meta and TikTok are censoring critics of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the United States, while repressing protesters in Albania and blatantly meddling in Brazil's elections.
Ben Norton explains how Meta censored Brazil's left-wing President Lula da Silva, while promoting far-right, US-backed candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3bc6ms_B4
Topics 0:00 US oligarchy 0:41 Big Tech meddles in Brazil election 1:22 Big Tech meddles in Albania 2:08 TikTok censors Elon Musk documentary 2:58 Elon Musk tries to buy US elections 3:28 Musk documentary 3:54 Billionaire Larry Ellison takes over TikTok 4:52 Skydance: Paramount buys Warner Bros 5:31 Meta censors No Kings on Instagram 6:15 USA is an oligarchy 6:55 Albanian protesters censored by Meta 8:44 Trump family backs Albanian criminals 9:44 Trump frees Honduran narco-dictator 10:25 USA meddles in Brazil's election 10:49 Meta censored Lula's accounts 12:12 Why the US opposes Lula 12:43 Lula & BRICS challenge US dollar 13:46 Trump hits Brazil with tariffs 14:18 Jair Bolsonaro coup attempt 16:19 Flavio & Eduardo Bolsonaro 17:49 Bolsonaristas ask Trump to bomb Brazil 18:35 US-backed coups in Latin America 19:22 Elon Musk: "We will coup whoever" 20:13 Flavio Bolsonaro's promises to Trump 20:40 Brazil's Pix payment system 21:55 Silicon Valley fears regulation 22:46 Meta censors pro-Lula accounts 23:14 Bolsonaro hires US AI company 24:33 AI fake social media accounts 27:51 US imperialism in Latin America 28:55 Donroe Doctrine 30:05 New era of AI coups
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