technology·Technologybysanitation AI and tech are trying to influence the midterm electionshttps://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5856359/ai-anthropic-congress-spending-openai-midterms-electionOpen linkView original on lemmy.today62Comments6
OOhneHose feddit.orgThey are influencing elections since 2015/2016. There's really no surprise here. Cambridge analytica even made a talk in how they influenced the first trump election.18
FriendOfDeSoto startrek.website1Hide 1 replyNot like any other election before where tech companies had zero interests and just thought may the best team win.9
TTelorand replyreddthat.comYeah, for eleventy-bajillion dollars worth of AI credits. Why use pesky money, when you can pay in pretend currency from an overinflated system backed up by an endless trail of IOUs?3
They are influencing elections since 2015/2016. There's really no surprise here.
Cambridge analytica even made a talk in how they influenced the first trump election.
Not like any other election before where tech companies had zero interests and just thought may the best team win.
It is the same, but more.
What are they gonna do – buy Twitter again?
Yeah, for eleventy-bajillion dollars worth of AI credits. Why use pesky money, when you can pay in pretend currency from an overinflated system backed up by an endless trail of IOUs?
it would very surprise me if that wasn't already the case 50 years ago