David McNeill

Rethinking Speech Rights in the Era of Corporate Information Control

Oriane Peter

How LLM Alignment Can Help Counteract Big Tech's Centralization of Power

Maren Behrensen

Tech Oligarchs and the Rise of Silicon Valley Pronatalism

Ananya Mukherjee

Aditi Rukhaiyar

Power and Responsibility: Investors at the Crossroads of Tech Accountability

Mai Van Tran

Lessons from Resisting Big Tech Power in Southeast Asia

Gabrielle Lim

Aidan Kerr

Marlene Terstiege

Marc Calabretta

A Match Made in the Heavens: The Surveillance State and the “New Space” Economy

Andressa Michelotti

Concentration of Power in the Broligarch Era

Jeremy McKey

A New Age of Trillionaire Philanthropy Is Coming. Democracies Should Be Wary.

Jamie Hancock

Tech Oligarchy Imperils Democratic Information Flows

Imad Payande

Echoes of Power: Elon Musk, Misinformation, and the Fragility of Democratic Discourse

Carine Roos

Gendered Disinformation as Infrastructure: How Tech Billionaires Shape Political Power

Alix Fraser

Michael Beckel 

Liana Keesing

Amelia (Mia) Minkin

Isabel Sunderland

The Tech Money Machine: How Silicon Valley Buys Power — and Shapes Reality

Surya Gowda

What Makes A Democracy A Democracy?

Anurag

Starlink in India: Connectivity, Control, and the Politics of the Sky

Moritz Von Knebel

When We Are No Longer Needed: Emerging Elites, Tech Trillionaires and the Decline of Democracy

Yannis Theocharis

Spyros Kosmidis

Friederike Quint

Jan Zilinsky

What People Want from Platforms Isn’t What Musk and Zuckerberg Are Selling

Gordon LaForge

Big Tech's Foreign Policy Takeover

William Burns

Labor Unions Can Counterbalance the Big Tech Oligarchy, But Only If They Rediscover Their Power

Murillo Bidoia Galdino

Big Tech, Bolsonarism, and the Erosion of Democracy

Fernando Filgueiras

Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça

Virgílio Almeida

AI Regulation Versus AI Innovation: A Fake Dichotomy

Scott Timcke

AI, Inequality, and Democratic Backsliding

In an era in which extreme wealth, political authority, and technological dominance grant unprecedented influence to a select few, the extraordinary power of a handful of tech figures poses profound challenges to democratic governance. Through their roles in the development and control of artificial intelligence, social media, telecommunications infrastructure, surveillance systems, the space industry, and renewable energy, these individuals wield immense power through and beyond their companies. They are reshaping political discourse, regulatory landscapes, and societal norms on a global scale.

Tech Policy Press invites contributors to examine the political influence of the 

. Contributors are encouraged to address the democratic risks posed by such individuals with inexhaustible resources and the capacity to shape policy, law, and public opinion who seem increasingly beyond the reach of accountability.

How do democracies—especially those in decline or otherwise precarious positions—safeguard public interests when confronted with figures who can leverage vast wealth, technology, and legal and political power to bypass, reshape, or capture traditional institutional constraints? What frameworks, tools, or strategies are necessary to ensure the ambitions and actions of such individuals align with countries’ democratic values and the will of elected governments?

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The Coming Age of Tech Trillionaires and the Challenge to Democracy