Oct 13, 2017Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend. The examples of Silicon Valley manipulation are too legion to list: push notifications, surge pricing, recommended friends, suggested films, people who bought this also bought that. Early on, Facebook realized there was a hurdle to getting people to stay logged on.

Jul 25, 2019During his testimony, Epstein showed the various tools Silicon Valley can use to influence elections however they want, including the fact that one of Hillary Clinton's top supporters was the executive chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet. According to Epstein, the two biggest perpetrators of this manipulation were Facebook and Google.

5 days agoSilicon Valley's Newest Rival: The Banks of the Hudson Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will soon have 20,000 workers in New York City, many in offices on the West Side. The New York Times

A) Open to scrutiny — Political manipulation seems to occur most often behind a veil; there is an opaqueness to processes. B) Source of power — Influencing more often relies upon the "power" of facts/data (this is not to say that "facts" are ever purely objective), as opposed to political power of reward/punishment.

Aug 14, 2017Conservatives Must Regulate Google And All of Silicon Valley Into Submission. It was a good system, but, like all systems, to get benefits you have to meet certain obligations. For businesses, one obligation was to generally stay out of the cultural and political octagon.

Aug 8, 2019Dr. Robert Epstein's testimony in the Senate exposed some seriously disturbing election manipulation activity by Facebook, Google and others. Watch this clip to hear Pat and Stu talk it over ...

Mar 22, 2017The scheme was backed by Silicon Valley "cleantech" billionaires in exchange for monopolies and profits. Those who reported the scheme were attacked and also defamed with media hit-jobs. These are reports from investigations, Congress and law enforcement on those uses of electronic automated election manipulation traded for crony government payola deals:

In Silicon Valley, where talented staff are in high demand, Facebook's biggest problem is declining morale. Many people joined the company in the hope of disrupting antique structures of power ...

Competition and Community in the Silicon Valley. This is the power of the agglomeration of Silicon Valley. Saxenian notes that, in addition to Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley, San Jose State University has been a major supplier of trained technical personnel for the Silicon Valley.

Jul 7, 2017By Clio Chang. But Zuckerberg reveals exactly why the left should be alarmed that Silicon Valley is taking the lead on this issue. First, the idea that UBI has bipartisan appeal is disingenuous. The left would have a policy that redistributes wealth by funding UBI through a more progressive tax scheme or the diverting of capital income.