Tech billionaires want to get richer. Trump is already helping them.

President Trump is no stranger to buddying up with the ultra rich, and that was on full display at his inauguration. Tech CEOs billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos were lined up at the proceeding. But beyond the optics, what policies are these CEOs and the new president working on together?

Brittany is joined by NPR’s tech correspondent Bobby Allyn and The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker to answer the question: is America a “tech oligarchy?” And what examples from Trump’s first week in office point to that?

For more, read Ashley Parker’s piece “The Tech Oligarchy Arrives” in The Atlantic.

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