"Billionaires have become radicalised against democracy," the American independent journalist Gil Durán tells the ABC.
"We have to realise how much power we have, and to stop being tuned out from the very real threat we face from a billionaire class that has gone off the edge of sanity into an altered reality.
The Nerd Reich wants to 'destroy' democracy, and its mask has slippedabc.net.au/news/2026-09-02/the> The author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, has a warning.#technology #technofascisme
The article summarises an interview with Gil Duran about his new book which describes how tech billionaires and venture capitalists in the US have cultivated a virulently anti-democratic ideology for decades and how they're using technology to remake today's world.
It reveals how... influential figures in Silicon Valley began describing democracy as a flawed operating system that had to be replaced by a corporate dictatorship.