As Elon Musk and his billionaire brethren take power in Trump’s second term, the lack of legal guardrails — and the fading power of Big Media — is becoming an existential crisis.

America’s tech oligarchy is making nice with the 47th president, but what about the Facebook founder’s pediatrician-turned-philanthropist wife?

From left to right, Priscilla Chan, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sánchez, Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration of Donald Trump at the Capitol on Monday. (Chip ...

Cabinet members, governors, and long-serving public servants are positioned in rows behind the tech billionaires, with only family seated ahead of them.

Musk is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $449 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He sat alongside Zuckerberg and Bezos, cheering Trump on during his inaugural speech.

Trump's inauguration drew several business and tech CEOs, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and TikTok's Shou Zi Chew.

The wife of Mark Zuckerberg and co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative attends the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.

A who's who of tech titans, business magnates, and global elites attended President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, including Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, stand beside Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, along with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, one of Trump's closest advisers. The world's wealthiest person, Musk also runs ...

Meta's removal of fact-checking reshapes digital trust and responsibility. What it means for creators, audiences, and the future of content moderation.

Several US tech billionaires, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, were allocated prime seats at US president Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, in a display of their influence in the new administration and the White House.

In this edited extract from his new book The Leadership Genius Of Elon Musk, veteran business journalist and broadcaster DENNIS KNEALE examines what we can all learn from the Tesla chief’s punchy style.