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Trump's embrace of the world's biggest tech CEOs reorients the 'attention economy'

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Trump-tech alliance could reshape what was long an adversarial relationship between conservatives and big tech companies.

Conservatives see a chance to advance their tech priorities on a host of fronts where they may not have seen possibilities before.

But they say they still harbor skepticism of the platforms that recent policy shifts and photo-ops have not softened.

Trump has seemingly allowed tech leaders to have free rein over implementing rapid change at federal agencies.

Tech leaders cheered an executive order aimed at loosening policies “that act as barriers to American AI innovation’s.

A Republican lobbyist said the idea that Trump was “ceding power to the richest people in the world” was misplaced.

Littlejohn said he sees “a tremendous opening right now” to advance a conservative tech agenda.

A senior Republican Senate aide reported not having noticed too much change on the major social media platforms.

One of the biggest things Trump is getting from the executives, this person said, is not directly obvious on their platforms: “legitimacy”.

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