Marc Andreesen, right wing billionaire starts Substack takeover

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Is Substack the New X? What Money from Andreessen Horowitz might mean.

"Andreessen and Horowitz are not neutral players in the democracy, equity, or justice space. They are billionaires who have used their platforms and influence to espouse regressive, even harmful views, particularly around immigration, diversity, and affirmative action." - Shari Dunn

"Marc Andreessen, the billionaire co-founder of the Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, in a private group chat facilitated via WhatsApp, a chat reportedly supported by the Trump administration. In it, Andreessen launched into a tirade about colleges being “biased against Trump voters,” and claimed: “My people are furious.” Let’s be honest: “His people” are white men. The chat, which included tech investors, entrepreneurs, and political influencers, some of whom are senior government officials with the Trump administration, was supposed to stay hidden. But someone leaked it." - Washington Post

See how right wing billionaires have bought out media outlets while MAGA Republicans defund the Public Broadcasting Service and NPR. Any surprise that you're getting news that favors billionaires over hard working Americans?

Billionaires buyout the free press

• Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreessen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI - Washington Post

• Andreessen Horowitz Leads $15.3 Million Funding Round in Newsletter Publishing Platform Substack - Fortune

• 'Go f**k yourself:' Jon Stewart rails against CBS for canceling 'The Late Show' - CNN

• Republicans votes to kill funding for public media - NPR

• FCC Fines Sinclair Record $48 Million For Deceptive Bid For Tribune Stations - NPR

• Frequency Forward Files FCC Petition to Block Sinclair Broadcast License Transfers for Five Stations - NASDAQ

Ann Telnaes, Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post'

A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post has resigned after its editorial page editor rejected a cartoon she created to mock media and tech titans abasing themselves before President-elect Donald Trump. Among the corporate chiefs depicted by Ann Telnaes was Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos.

The inspiration for Telnaes' latest proposed cartoon was the trek by top tech chief executives including Bezos to Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, as well as the seven-figure contributions several promised to make toward his inauguration. - NPR

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"A free press is critical to our democracy, and we must do everything in our power to preserve it. But what happens when billionaires and mega-rich corporations own and operate most channels of communication and information sharing?"

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• Trump has signed an executive order to defund PBS and NPR, a direct attack on fact-based and free public media.

• Mark Zuckerberg owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced that it was ending fact-checking on its platforms.

• Sergey Brin and Larry Page owned Google said it wouldn’t integrate fact-checking into its search engine or YouTube.

Democracy dies in darkness. It also withers behind a paywall, is manipulated by social media algorithms and hollowed out by covert corporate consolidation. The shadow cast by self-interested billionaires grows larger by the day, muzzling any truth that conflicts with their bottom line. - Virginia Kase Solomón, CEO of Common Cause in Salon.

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