When Jack Dorsey banned a sitting American president from Twitter, the decision was made not in a courtroom or legislature — but inside a private company. It was a glimpse of a power shift that had been building for two decades.
A small group of technology founders built platforms that reshaped how the world communicates, shops, and gathers information. Over time, that influence moved beyond markets and into the machinery of politics itself. The Tech Oligarchs traces how a handful of billionaire innovators came to hold extraordinary sway over public debate, government policy, and the digital infrastructure that now underpins modern life.
Following the rise of Meta, Amazon, and Google from startup experiments to global power centres, the book examines how control over data, platforms, and information flows created a new kind of authority — one that often operates outside traditional democratic oversight.
This is a close look at the intersection of technology, wealth, and political power in the twenty-first century. It asks how private platforms became public gatekeepers, and what that shift means for the future of democracy.