What Tech Wants: The San Francisco Experiment
Tech billionaires turned local politics into a laboratory. What they discovered was a formula for power.
Lever Time · David Sirota
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Show Notes
In 2022, nonprofit neighborhood groups, backed by Silicon Valley billionaires, helped recall a progressive district attorney in San Francisco. What happened next would change the country.
In Part One of What Tech Wants, Lever Time’s investigation into why Silicon Valley is buying our democracy, producer Ariella Markowitz uncovers how a local experiment unlocked a new formula for political power.
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