America’s top tech companies aided China’s authoritarian power grabs Plus, MAGA world whines over Trump’s Big Tech dinner, Europe spurns the president’s tariff threats and more — all in this week’s Tuesday Tech Drop.

Sept. 9, 2025, 5:56 PM EDT

By Ja'han Jones

Happy Tuesday! Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, the past week’s top stories from the intersection of technology and politics.

Big Tech’s totalitarian ties

American tech companies have played a key role in helping China spy on and suppress its citizens, according to an investigation by The Associated Press. On Tuesday, the outlet reported:

Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previou

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