‘Beg And Plead’: Why Big Tech Is Falling In Line With Trump

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  • Source: IJR
  • 12/24/2024
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory, Big Tech companies became central hubs of the so-called “resistance” against him, firing up censorship and deplatforming campaigns, culminating in the then-former president’s banishment from Facebook and Twitter after the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google founder Sergei Brin famously led thousands of employees in protest against Trump’s immigration policies. During the 2020 campaign, Big Tech platforms even censored discussions of the Hunter Biden laptop story in order to curry favor with his father and Trump’s opponent — former Vice President Joe Biden.

But since Trump’s reelection in November, Big Tech executives appear to be bending the knee rather than trying to kneecap their former foe.

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