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Business INFRASTRUCTURE Elon Musk Power and the Systems Behind His Influence 23 MAY 2026 — MEREDAN STAFF — 15 MIN READ   In November 2022, advertisers began leaving Twitter after Elon Musk acquired the platform. Major brands paused spending. Civil society groups warned about moderation failures. Journalists focused on chaotic layoffs and public disputes happening […]

CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE What the Met Gala Reveals About Power, Visibility, and the Systems Behind Modern Influence 23 MAY 2026 — MEREDAN STAFF — 10 MIN READ The Metropolitan Museum of Art raised roughly $31 million through the 2025 Met Gala before most people had even seen the exhibition it was supposedly celebrating. Individual seats reportedly

In late 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule that would bring large digital payment platforms closer to bank-equivalent supervision. The framing was careful: companies like Apple, Google, and PayPal were not being reclassified as banks, but regulators explicitly raised concern that systems processing payments at massive scale were beginning to function like

For most of its history, NVIDIA occupied a relatively narrow position inside the technology industry. It was respected, profitable, technically sophisticated, and deeply influential within gaming and specialized computing circles. But it was not perceived as a company shaping the architecture of the global economy. That changed with artificial intelligence. Not because NVIDIA suddenly invented AI. And

In August 2023, Fitch Ratings downgraded the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+. The immediate market reaction was less dramatic than many headlines suggested: Treasury markets remained functional, investors continued buying U.S. debt, and the dollar did not collapse. Yet, the downgrade still mattered enough for the White House to publicly