{
  "id": 16626,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/05/journalist-taking-on-tech-fascists-silicon-valley",
  "title": "‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley",
  "summary": "As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them In April, Gil Durán was permanently banned from Elon Musk’s X for posting just two words. Durán was responding to a post from the tech company Palantir outlining its 22‑point “technological manifesto” , which praised American “hard power”, western culture and AI weapons, denounced inclusivity and called for comp",
  "authors": "Steve Rose",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security",
  "orgs": "xai,palantir",
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T09:00:14.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T05:10:11.148Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16626",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/05/journalist-taking-on-tech-fascists-silicon-valley",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}