Molly White

And the AI companies, the venture capitalists, and Elon Musk are doing the same thing, putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the midterms, all to buy our political system and break it.

Today on the Nerdrike podcast, I'm joined by tech researcher Molly White to discuss her crucial transparency project, Tech Influence Watch.

Molly meticulously tracks Silicon Valley's efforts to buy the US government.

Her work exposes a massive political heist underway.

So crypto is corrupto.

Keep that in mind, folks.

Molly White, thank you so much for joining us again on the Nerd Right Podcast, and any time you wanna come back, you're always welcome here.

Thanks so much for having me.

So what's new in new currency? We've talked crypto, we've talked AI, but those beasts move faster than we do and we need a fast mind on a fast track to help us enjoy the illusion that we're keeping up.

And Molly White is back to help us maintain that illusion.

And then let's peel back some illusions to really improve things.

It's a new Life Hacks with Captain Crinkle.

They really have.

I don't know if AI can tell Bonnie if her snail's dead or not, but I know who can tell us if AI can tell us that.

We've got Molly White talking AI and crypto when we come back.

On this day in unremarkable history, Jacques Cousteau said, you smell like a dead snail.

They just ignored it.

And we got to admit, we were talking about this also, Molly White said this on Sunday on Twit.

It's good marketing for open AI.

They may not have been anxious to slow it down.

I'm Molly White, and you're listening to the audio feed for the Citation Needed newsletter.

You can see the text version of the newsletter online at citationneeded.news. Issue 109, Reg Crypto.

The SEC's Reg Crypto aims to carve out exemptions, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter.

However, there is one very president-shaped reason it might not, and a FOIA request by Pogo that produced no investigation records related to Alt-5 Sigma suggests no investigation has been opened.

That report is titled No SEC Probe of Trump Crypto Deal Despite Alleged Illegality.

In the news, frequent New York Times opinion writer Thomas B. Edsel wrote, quote, I asked a wide range of crypto experts about the Trump family's involvement in the industry, and more than half pointed me to independent analyst Molly White.

So that was pretty cool.

He extensively quotes me in the op-ed about President Trump's many crypto-related conflicts of interest, along with Cornell economist Aswar Prasad and Duke financial regulation scholar Lee Reiners.

It's time for TWiT This Week in Tech.

Molly White is here.

Jacob Ward.

Harry McCracken.

Good to see you.

Good to be here.

Also with us, the fabulous Molly White from Web3 is going just great and citation needed.news. Hello, Molly.

Hello.