I found his interview on the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast really informative: https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/342_tech_fascism_has_come_for_american_democracy_w_gil_duran

“Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.”

The Silicon Valley business model is to make a culturally significant product that is unilaterally controlled by the business and sacrifices as much quality as it can for monetization.