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President Joe Biden devoted a great deal of his farewell address warning of the concentration of power and wealth, particularly when it comes to what he dubbed the “tech industrial complex.”
In a speech from the Oval Office, Biden did not name Elon Musk, who stands to take a central role in Donald Trump‘s administration, or Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, who have taken blatant steps to woo the former Celebrity Apprentice host.
But borrowing a phrase from Dwight D. Eisenhower, who warned of the rise of the military industrial complex in his final speech to the nation, Biden said that he was “equally concerned about the potential rise of the tech industrial complex.
“It can pose real dangers to our country as well. Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact checking. Truth is smothered by lies, told for power and for profit. We must hold the social platforms accountable, to protect our children, our families in a very democracy from the abuse of power.”
More to come.
