Technology & Telecommunications

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A couple of months before the November 2024 election, a curious document landed in investors'  inboxes. Titled the “World Liberty Gold Paper” and emblazoned with a stern-looking picture of Donald Trump in a coin-shaped splash of gold, it announced the Trump family’s entrée into the world of cryptocurrencies. Within a year, half of Trump's estimated US$6.6 billion wealth would come from this new venture. Read More

The Trump family cashed in on DeFi just before the 2024 U.S. election by creating a new entity called World Liberty Financial, which is partly owned by a Trump family corporate entity, DT Marks DEFI LLC. (Click here for the table of contents of MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers.)  Read More

Trump’s pro-crypto vision has been a blessing for “tether” - the world’s most traded cryptocurrency, a type of stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar - which trades as USDT. Read More

At Trump’s first presidential inauguration in 2016, Silicon Valley was openly hostile to Trump. “Tonight we cry, we despair, and we fear,” tweeted Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the time. Read More

Project Oracle, the inspiration for the company that Larry Ellison co-founded, was a contract issued by the Central Intelligence Agency back in 1975 to build a system for the mass storage of digital data. Read More

Zane Shamblin, a computer science and business graduate in Texas, killed himself on July 24, 2025, after a four-hour drinking session and “death chat” with ChatGPT, an AI bot that provided seemingly human responses to his questions over his anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. (Click here for the table of contents of MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers.) Read More

Energy Transfer LP, which is based in Dallas, Texas, is one of the five biggest pipeline companies in the U.S. with a presence in 44 states (predominantly in the Texas-Oklahoma-Louisiana corridor) as well as internationally. It specializes in “transportation, storage and terminaling for natural gas, crude oil, NGLs, refined products and liquified natural gas.” Read More

One of the biggest beneficiaries of the presidency of Donald Trump is a Wall Street services firm named Cantor Fitzgerald, which has become a major source of funds for crypto executives and AI infrastructure such as data centers. (Click here for the table of contents of MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers.)  Read More

When Nathan Bernard, an activist tracking immigration raids in Portland, Maine, filmed an ICE agent taking pictures of her in late January 2026, she questioned why he was photographing her. "Because we have a nice little database, and now you're considered a domestic terrorist,” the masked agent replied. (Click here for the table of contents of MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers.)  Read More