EPISODE · Jun 27, 2026 · 35 MIN
The real reason US Big Tech corporations fear China
from Geopolitical Economy Report · host Ben Norton
US Big Tech corporations are paying influencers to spread anti-China, pro-AI disinformation on social media. Ben Norton explains why Silicon Valley fears Chinese competition and seeks to monopolize artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies, to impose the global dominance of the USA in an imperialist unipolar order. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLnM-gxj-o Topics 0:00 Silicon Valley spreads propaganda 2:08 US govt helps Elon Musk pollute 4:52 Scapegoating China 5:32 AI arms race 7:34 (CLIP) Ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt 7:52 Silicon Valley wants monopolies 10:02 (CLIP) Peter Thiel loves monopolies 10:20 Sam Altman lobbies US govt 12:40 OpenAI is losing lots of money 14:02 Pentagon works with Big Tech 15:54 Anthropic conflict with Trump admin 17:25 Dario Amodei backs Cold War Two 18:28 USA wants unipolar world 20:01 Palantir and techno-fascism 23:26 Totalitarian police state 26:10 Larry Ellison buys up US media 26:44 Surveillance Valley 30:58 Monopoly and hegemony 32:27 Imperialism and Big Tech 34:48 Outro
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