Writing in The Guardian, prolific commentator and Professor Robert Reich listed important points:

• Putrid connections between great wealth and great power are revealed. Oligarchs are fully exposed, and they are defiant.

• Anything inconsistent with the Jeff Bezos view of the world will not be published in his Washington Post newspaper.

• Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, bought Twitter in 2022, laid off everyone who was filtering out hateful crap on the platform, renamed it X and turned it into a cesspool of lies in support of Trump.

• Mark Zuckerberg, the second-richest person in the world, followed suit, allowing Facebook to emit lies, hate and bigotry in support of Trump’s lies, hate and bigotry.

• American oligarchs are destroying democracy.

• When billionaires take control of our communication channels, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for their billionaire babble.

• When they talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into worse economic insecurity and fear.

• When they speak of “freedom”, what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.