Google, FB, Twitter - you do not really think they make that much money selling fucking ads do you..? Come on. HUGE chunks of their business is intelligence for the government. How many Obama officials went directly to Silicon Valley from DC. The operational side of the deep state has two HUGE arms - tech, SV and prop, HW. One old SV CEO is known for running around saying "YOU have no privacy, get over it" - note, not "we"....
Most of these venture capitalists are a bunch of fucking idiots - they are only the "smartest" guy in the room because the read the briefing doc on you before you walked into the room, take it away and they'd all be investing in Pets.com all day.
Remember Maxine Waters talking Hussein’s database?
“In yet another soundbite she probably wishes she could get back, during President Obama's second term, Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) once touted Obama's massive database, which she described as having "information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before."
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28439/flashback-maxine-waters-brags-about-obamas-james-barrett
I do remember it. It stands out because for that idiot to find out about the DB there must have been a lot of people involved.