Whizz, seek, bang, bash into the tech mire.

Everyone, by now knows, in digital, information is the tech game, and you’re the product. American or Chinese, someone is listening to your information.

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I don’t need to tell you that we’ve started off with a bang, this year.

Of course, I don’t mean the fireworks you might have seen on New Year’s Eve, but the event’s past January 20^th 2025.

All of which have impacts on the media, some of the subtle, many of them not so much.

A quick run through starts with Mark Zuckerberg, and his deals with President Trump, I couldn’t believe it when I heard, taking it to dinner with me while catching up with a friend.

Zuckerberg essentially has been given the greenlight to not need to factcheck, not need to continue with diversity hire drives, he has decided to leave Silicon Valley and California’s liberal viewpoints, and instead move Facebook and In…