“There’s a lot to be concerned about with the... tech companies and their cozying up to Trump,” said Kristen Monroe, a political science professor at the University of California, Irvine, and director of the school’s Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality. “That’s frightening for many reasons,” she added, also arguing that most of the tech firms appear to have aligned with Trump to avoid regulatory scrutiny of their dominant market positions. … “We’re at a point where there are many more challenges to free, accurate, truthful speech than we’ve had in the past.”

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