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The big-money donors backing both DeSantis and RFK Jr.

They say it's not just a push to move past former Trump and make Biden's path more difficult.

Axios

VCs weigh in on IRL, the social app unicorn with 95% fake users: ‘Inexcusable’

Chamath Palihapitiya warned of “deeply inexperienced” VCs who “don't even know how to ask the basic questions.”

Fortune

Brian Merchant: The tech elite's embrace of RFK Jr. is a grim omen for Silicon Valley's future

Silicon Valley's archetypal hero is the founder of humble beginnings — he who, through grit, sweat and genius, unleashes a world-changing idea from his garage. It's hard to imagine someone more antithetical to that formula than a scion of the most powerful political dynasty in the nation. Yet Robert F.…

Los Angeles Times

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Tech luminaries give RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine message a boost

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the latest scion of the Kennedy clan to seek the presidency, has a set of unusual fans: some of the most influential tech executives and investors in America. Kennedy’s strong anti-vaccine views are, for this group, a sideshow.

Tribune News Service

Tech boosting RFK's anti-vaccine message

Kennedy's views on shots includes alleged safety problems which have been discredited by reputable scientists

Salon

Silicon Valley's loudest moguls get behind RFK Jr.

These are intrinsic contrarians supporting a long-shot presidential candidate whose last name is matched only by his baggage.

Axios

RFK Jr – live: Musk reveals Twitter revenue down by half as he hosts anti-vax 2024 White House hopeful

Robert F Kennedy Jr has long-held, and promoted, anti-vaccine beliefs

The Independent UK

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Elon Musk hosts anti-vax 2024 candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr on Twitter Spaces after disastrous DeSantis event

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched his campaign via Twitter Space in May

The Independent UK

Elon Musk’s Reminder On Excesses That Led To 2008 Housing Market Collapse

Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned about a risk that looms large for the housing market, repeating a thought he expressed a year ago

Zenger

Billionaires, media bashing and woke ‘bubbles’: Key takeaways from Ron DeSantis’ campaign rollout

Attacks on the media, threats to dismantle elements of US government and warnings about the ‘woke mind virus’ dominate glitch-filled launch

The Independent UK

Digested week: Netflix ends password-sharing – but I’m close to bailing anyway

Plus, reflections on Martin Amis’s later years, and Jude Law’s disgusting new cologne

The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump Jr says his father has the ‘charisma of a mortician’

Trump Jr says Ron DeSantis will regret running against his father

The Independent UK

AOC jokes more people watched her gaming online than listened to glitch-ridden DeSantis launch

‘We had more people join when I played Among Us,’ says New York progressive

The Independent UK

‘Failure to launch’: Memes mock dire Ron DeSantis 2024 launch on Twitter Spaces as #DeSaster trends

Ron DeSantis’ presidential launch via Twitter Spaces was filled with technological glitches

The Independent UK

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Salon

DeSantis mocked over humiliating launch

"Unspinnable failure. Total and complete. Fully public,” tweeted MSNBC host Chris Hayes

The Independent UK

Elon Musk insists Ron DeSantis’s disastrous Twitter launch was a success: ‘The top story on Earth’

CEO insists glitches only revealed ‘massive attention’ governor’s event attracted

The Guardian - UK

What went wrong at Ron DeSantis’s US presidential campaign launch?

Announcement on Twitter – with Elon Musk present – was marred by technical glitches. We look at what happened

Salon

Meatball in the Machine

To be fair, launching a campaign at Disney World was out of the question

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The Independent UK

What is Twitter Spaces and why did it go so wrong during DeSantis’s 2024 launch?

At one point, the controversial Republican governor himself disappeared from the audio-only livestream

Fortune

Twitter's performance overshadows Ron DeSantis presidential announcement

Elon Musk blames overloaded servers for Twitter Spaces crashing while Florida governor Ron DeSantis announces his presidential run on the platform's live audio feature.

The Guardian - US

Outages, garbled audio: DeSantis’s 2024 launch marred by Twitter tech meltdown

Struggling platform experienced its greatest stress test yet on Wednesday, with glitches piling as more people joined the stream

The Independent UK

Billionaires, media bashing and woke ‘bubbles’: Key takeaways from Ron DeSantis’ campaign rollout

Attacks on the media, threats to dismantle elements of US government and warnings about the ‘woke mind virus’ dominate glitch-filled launch

WEKU

Ron DeSantis debuts presidential bid in a glitch-ridden Twitter 'disaster'

The glitched-filled announcement showcased just how fragile the social media's platform's infrastructure is since Musk took the site over.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Technical problems mar DeSantis’ presidential announcement on Twitter with Elon Musk

Ron DeSantis was supposed to make history Wednesday as the first politician to announce his presidential campaign during a live interview on Twitter.

The Independent UK

David Sacks: The controversial entrepreneur hosting Ron DeSantis 2024 event with Elon Musk

South African-born venture capitalist has stirred controversy with his stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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