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Why Were Tech Billionaires Front and Center at Trump’s Inauguration?

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Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and More Perfect Union.

Why were tech billionaires front and center at Trump’s inauguration? They weren’t just there for the photo-op — it’s way worse than that. They’re actually hoping for a “sweetheart deal” to escape the biggest anti-monopoly cases in a generation.

For EHRP and More Perfect Union, our contributing editor Meagan Day explains how the rising broligarchy exploits consumers and perpetuates disinformation. Watch now on Instagram. 

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  • Meagan Day

    Meagan Day is a writer and editor. Her work has been published in Jacobin, The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, n+1, and elsewhere. She's been interviewed by the Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the Harvard Political Review, and in 2022 addressed the Oxford Union. She is the co-author with Micah Uetricht of the book Bigger than Bernie: How We Go From the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism (Verso, 2020), and the author of the book Maximum Sunlight (Wolfman, 2016).

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Meagan Day is a writer and editor. Her work has been published in Jacobin, The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, n+1, and elsewhere. She's been interviewed by the Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the Harvard Political Review, and in 2022 addressed the Oxford Union. She is the co-author with Micah Uetricht of the book Bigger than Bernie: How We Go From the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism (Verso, 2020), and the author of the book Maximum Sunlight (Wolfman, 2016).

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