When President Joe Biden used his farewell address on Wednesday to warn of a growing “tech industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country,” he didn’t expressly say who he was talking about.
But with days to go until President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for a second term, Biden’s ominous remarks about what he called a new “oligarchy” of “extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy” appeared to be a pointed swipe at centibillionaire Trump backer Elon Musk, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, among others.
