http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/0b6c5356e725336f https://verfassungsblog.de/countering-the-tech-oligarchy/ Countering the Tech Oligarchy - Why the EU Needs a Broad Arsenal to Counter the Nexus Between Nationalism and Technology Biedermann, Ferry eng 2025-01-24 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Big Tech Elon Musk Plutocracy Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Seeing Elon Musk with Donald Trump at the latter’s inauguration, it would be tempting to single him out as a unique and overbearing threat to a range of EU interests, such as its online environment, election integrity and regulatory capacity. But that would be to miss the point of a larger trend; what Joe Biden has termed the “tech-industrial complex” is not limited to the US. It, and an associated worldwide oligarchy, is converging with ascendant ultra-nationalist political agendas to pose wide-ranging challenges.