What Tech Wants: Crypto Reign Of Terror (with Jacob Silverman and Molly White)
Why the crypto industry spent $130 million buying the 2024 election.
Lever Time · David Sirota
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Show Notes
In 2024, the cryptocurrency industry spent more than $130 million to influence elections nationwide. Their campaign donations and lobbying efforts turned the tables for their risky boom-and-bust business, which is now poised to overtake our entire financial system.
In Part Two of What Tech Wants, Lever Time’s investigation into why Silicon Valley is buying our democracy, producer Ariella Markowitz reveals how crypto companies aligned with President Donald Trump to advance their agenda.
To listen to Part One of our series, click here.
Click here to subscribe to Molly White’s newsletter Citation Needed.
Click here to read Jacob Silverman’s book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley.
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