Geopolitical Economy Report
Ben Norton
US Big Tech corporations are blatantly meddling in Brazil's election
OCT 20, 202632 MIN
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Description
US Big Tech corporations based in Silicon Valley are manipulating politics across the world. Meta and TikTok are censoring critics of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the United States, while repressing protesters in Albania and blatantly meddling in Brazil's elections.
Ben Norton explains how Meta censored Brazil's left-wing President Lula da Silva, while promoting far-right, US-backed candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3bc6ms_B4
Topics
0:00 US oligarchy
0:41 Big Tech meddles in Brazil election
1:22 Big Tech meddles in Albania
2:08 TikTok censors Elon Musk documentary
2:58 Elon Musk tries to buy US elections
3:28 Musk documentary
3:54 Billionaire Larry Ellison takes over TikTok
4:52 Skydance: Paramount buys Warner Bros
5:31 Meta censors No Kings on Instagram
6:15 USA is an oligarchy
6:55 Albanian protesters censored by Meta
8:44 Trump family backs Albanian criminals
9:44 Trump frees Honduran narco-dictator
10:25 USA meddles in Brazil's election
10:49 Meta censored Lula's accounts
12:12 Why the US opposes Lula
12:43 Lula & BRICS challenge US dollar
13:46 Trump hits Brazil with tariffs
14:18 Jair Bolsonaro coup attempt
16:19 Flavio & Eduardo Bolsonaro
17:49 Bolsonaristas ask Trump to bomb Brazil
18:35 US-backed coups in Latin America
19:22 Elon Musk: "We will coup whoever"
20:13 Flavio Bolsonaro's promises to Trump
20:40 Brazil's Pix payment system
21:55 Silicon Valley fears regulation
22:46 Meta censors pro-Lula accounts
23:14 Bolsonaro hires US AI company
24:33 AI fake social media accounts
27:51 US imperialism in Latin America
28:55 Donroe Doctrine
30:05 New era of AI coups

