‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley — Stuff That Spins
description: As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfec…
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Stuff That Spins
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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
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description: As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfec…
date published: 2026-08-05T09:00:14+00:00
date modified: 2026-08-06T12:10:06.611343+00:00
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article section: technology
author: The Guardian US Technology
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