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Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster | The New Yorker

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From crypto to A.I., the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda.

Save this story Save this story One morning in February, Katie Porter was sitting in bed, futzing around on her computer, when she learned that she was the target of a vast techno-political conspiracy. For the past five years, Porter had served in the House of Representatives on behalf of Orange County, California. She’d become famous—at least, C- span and MSNBC famous—for her eviscerations of business tycoons, often aided by a whiteboard that she used to make camera-friendly presentations about corporate greed. Now she was in a highly competitive race to replace the California senator Dianne

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