$Money - Who Is $Buying Your $Politicians ?$?
April 13, 2026, 4:00 AM GMT-5 / By Ben Kamisar, Jiachuan Wu and Melinda Yao
Two booming, intertwined tech industries are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into U.S. elections through a complex web of political groups, as they prepare for how lawmakers decide to regulate them in the future.
www.nbcnews.com
$money doesn't influence U.S. political election outcomes?
Did Vlad Putin interfere in the 2016 presidential elections enough to shift the election victory from Hillary to Trump?
Information is valuable. "Free" Internet services including e-mail have invisible strings attached. The information collected on you may seem trivial. But in the aggregate such information can impart enormous $wealth. $And
$Money is $Power.
Whomever gains control of such government regulation will have access to great $wealth & $power.
By the time court challenges reach SCOTUS the precedents they favored will already have been set.
K-street influence over the U.S. congress is immensely consequential. Those held to account by the law pay lobbyists to write the law, to cushion or block being held to account.
It appears A.I. / crypto are so eager to get in on the ground floor they're paying $Tens of $Millions into elections.
President Trump may grab the headlines. BUT !!
Don't allow him to distract you.
How the AI and crypto industries are pouring tens of millions of dollars into elections
An analysis of campaign finance reports shows the web of super PACs backing — and going negative on — candidates with funds from big-name executives and companies.April 13, 2026, 4:00 AM GMT-5 / By Ben Kamisar, Jiachuan Wu and Melinda Yao
Two booming, intertwined tech industries are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into U.S. elections through a complex web of political groups, as they prepare for how lawmakers decide to regulate them in the future.
How the AI and crypto industries are pouring tens of millions of dollars into elections
An analysis of campaign finance reports shows the web of super PACs backing — and going negative on — candidates with funds from big-name executives and companies.
www.nbcnews.com
$money doesn't influence U.S. political election outcomes?
Did Vlad Putin interfere in the 2016 presidential elections enough to shift the election victory from Hillary to Trump?
Information is valuable. "Free" Internet services including e-mail have invisible strings attached. The information collected on you may seem trivial. But in the aggregate such information can impart enormous $wealth. $And
$Money is $Power.
Whomever gains control of such government regulation will have access to great $wealth & $power.
By the time court challenges reach SCOTUS the precedents they favored will already have been set.
K-street influence over the U.S. congress is immensely consequential. Those held to account by the law pay lobbyists to write the law, to cushion or block being held to account.
It appears A.I. / crypto are so eager to get in on the ground floor they're paying $Tens of $Millions into elections.
President Trump may grab the headlines. BUT !!
Don't allow him to distract you.