Democrats Ready a Blitz of Investigations Into the Tech Giants That Courted Trump
Democrats launching congressional investigations into SpaceXAI, META and Apple
Democrats are laying the groundwork to investigate the most sensitive and controversial moves made by America's largest corporations over the past two years, with SpaceXAI, Meta, and Apple among the targets. The planned wave of probes has Silicon Valley and Wall Street executives who courted the Trump administration scrambling to prepare for what comes next.
Democrats are preparing to unleash a wave of investigations that will probe the most sensitive and controversial actions of America's largest corporations over the past two years, sparking a reckoning among Silicon Valley and Wall Street executives who courted the Trump administration — and who are now bracing for an onslaught.
- swingboy
No Palantir?
- grvdrm
I just hope that the congressional panelists do their homework. Especially in the televised bits in which C-suite reps testify in front of Congress.
Every time I come away thinking that the investigators themselves have not spend much (or any) time understanding the basics of these businesses.
And so they resort to what they know: speeches/lectures to let their constituents hear and see them on the record standing for anything.
- behole
- insane_dreamer
they'd better keep it laser focused on stuff like bribery that is easy to demonstrate, and not stuff like "enabled ICE by hosting apps" etc. which is much less understood by the American people and harder to nail down as a crime
- AlexandrB
> Lawmakers are also eyeing Apple over its hosting of tracking apps used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
This is bizarre. ICE is an (enforcement) arm of the government. So the government is investigating Apple for hosting tracking apps used by the government?
- xqcgrek2
Long overdue.
- georgemcbay
Good.
Congress has to start working for the people it represents again, so I really hope the Democrats start pushing lots of legislation that addresses the real needs of the people. Even if every bill gets vetoed, make sure Trump and the Republicans around him own the lack of progress in a very visible way to ensure 2028 is an easy-mode Democratic win.
But... they also have to undo the damage to the rule of law that has been supercharged by the Trump administration.
Letting bygones be bygones and trying to move back to the old status quo without addressing actual wrongdoing is how you end up with Trump getting reelected even after January 6th.
If you spend years (correctly) telling people the current cronyism and open corruption is destroying our democracy, you have to act like it really was when you regain power and that means investigating and punishing those who took advantage of it, where just and applicable.
- herodoturtle
Paywall for me. Link anyone? Curious to read this. Thanks.