CNN’s Jake Tapper warned Monday that the country was about to enter an “era of deepfakes and all kinds of disinformation” under President Trump. Big Tech presence with him inauguration.
“We’re about to enter an era of deepfakes, and all kinds of misinformation and the extent to which those five gentlemen play a role or don’t play a role will be critical to where the American people are in four years . , in terms of understanding what is true and what is false,” Tapper said before Trump took the oath of office.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla founder Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were among the tech giants attending the inauguration.
Tapper said these five people “control so much of the information we receive, so much is in their hands when it comes to determining, monitoring or refusing to monitor what is real, what is not real.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper speaks on CNN on January 12, 2025. (Screenshot/CNN)
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper expanded Tapper’s warning to the entire world.
“Not just about us, the United States, you’re talking about the world. All the people on this planet control access to information. They are in many ways the gatekeepers of information for the entire planet,” he says. said.
CNN’s Van Jones noted the historical nature of the photos showing the five technology executives, pointing out that not long ago most of them supported the Democratic Party.
“Look, that image will be historic. I call it the revenge of the nerds. Remember, all four gentlemen supported the Democratic Party four years ago,” he said.
Priscilla Chan (L), Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) attend the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump at the Rotunda in January of the US Capitol August 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. ((Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images))
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“An untold story here is how the Democrats went from four years ago to having the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives and Silicon Valley so that now all four are in the hands of Donald Trump,” Jones said, arguing that the Biden administration was putting pressure on the election. getting rid of them by not introducing cryptocurrency regulations and dispelling the idea that all big companies are bad.
“Elon Musk was an Andrew Yang Democrat. But when Joe Biden held his EV summit, he left out Elon. There were so many unforced errors on the part of the Biden administration,” Jones continued. “Those four are all our people who were kicked out of our party because we didn’t have an innovation first approach from the Biden White House and we are now paying the price. It’s not just that we lost the White House, the House of Representatives. , the Senate. We’ve lost Silicon Valley in the last four years, and you can’t blame anyone but us.”
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Zuckerberg specifically announced this ended Facebook and Instagram’s fact-checking program in early January, saying they would use a system similar to X’s community notes.
