Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square.
These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere.
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Vikram Bath
Jake Grumbach
A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.
Ryan Enos
The ultimate boss of failing upward.
We are happy to release Version 4 of WhoGov, which expands WhoGov to 2025. It now contains data on cabinet members from 1966-2025.
The update is supported by UiO:Democracy and can be downloaded through GETGOV's page or through Nuffield College: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/whogov-datas....
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Version 4 is also the last business as usual update of WhoGov.
We are working towards a more automated workflow using coding agents. This will allow us to release updates more frequently and move away from the yearly format. Furthermore, we are adding Wikidata ID, more portfolios, and more.
CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report.
Ever since humans settled into communities, there have been political classes. A small elite governs, while the majority are governed. Yet, who are the people in the governing elite? GETGOV will answe...
