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@BenjaminNorton Avatar @BenjaminNorton Ben Norton

Ben Norton posts on X about prize, corina machado, venezuela, china the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence countries #7412 finance #162 technology brands XXXX% stocks #2488 automotive brands XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% cryptocurrencies XXXX%

Social topic influence prize #13, corina machado #2, venezuela #224, china #530, argentina #321, donald trump #151, israel #1800, has been #517, bail #17, microsoft #42

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Top assets mentioned Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Bitcoin (BTC) Kroger Co (KR) BlackRock Inc (BLK)

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Billionaire hedge fund manager turned US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump admin is giving $XX billion to bail out Argentina's failed libertarian President Milei because the US wants to exploit Argentina's natural resources and force it to cut ties with China"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-10T14:18Z 321.7K followers, 28.8K engagements

"The AI bubble in the US stock market is beyond crazy. The Magnificent 7* Big Tech monopolies make up XXXXX% of the entire market capitalization of all 5786 publicly traded companies in the US. The Mag7 made up XXXXX% of the rise in market cap this year. Dot-com bubble XXX * The Magnificent Seven are Alphabet (Google) Amazon Apple Meta Microsoft Nvidia and Tesla. This data comes from Aswath Damodaran professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Source:"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-09T14:40Z 321.7K followers, 27.4K engagements

"This chart is very interesting because it shows China's strategy for de-dollarization by foreign lending for the Belt and Road Initiative. China's central bank (the PBOC) has gradually reduced its holdings of US dollar-denominated assets in the past decade. Up until 2013 as China accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars every year from its trade surplus the PBOC was mostly using those dollars to fill its reserves with US Treasury securities -- thereby helping to finance the US government However this chart shows that something changed in 2014. The PBOC stopped accumulating so many"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-09-30T13:13Z 321.7K followers, 44.5K engagements

"Donald Trump admitted in 2023 that in his first term as US president he tried to overthrow Venezuela's government and pillage its oil: "We would have taken Venezuela over. We would have gotten all that oil. It would have been right next door""
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-11T16:15Z 321.7K followers, 282.2K engagements

"Far-right pro-war politicians in Florida are ecstatic about the Nobel "Peace" Prize won by US government-funded coup leader Mara Corina Machado because they hope it will help legitimize Trump's neocolonial war on Venezuela. War is "peace""
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-12T00:54Z 321.7K followers, 14.1K engagements

"Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel's genocide & Trump's war on Venezuela Full video:"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-11T15:59Z 321.7K followers, 8530 engagements

"During the Cold War the CIA capitalist West Germany and the Ford Foundation funded terrorist armies of ex Nazis to attack and sabotage communist East Germany. (This is from journalist William Blum's legendary book "Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII")"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2020-07-07T16:41Z 321.6K followers, 1083 engagements

"The game is rigged. The corruption is structural and insider trading is now the norm"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-12T01:06Z 321.7K followers, 119.5K engagements

"De-dollarization: The People's Bank of China continues to dump its US Treasury securities (US gov't debt) China's holdings fell from $869B in March 2023 to $767B in March 2024 Japan Europe Canada keep buying more. UK is on path to soon overtake China as the 2nd-biggest holder"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2024-05-16T12:18Z 321.1K followers, 24.5K engagements

"Trump-backed Venezuelan coup leader promises to give oil to US corporations Full video:"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-14T15:02Z 321.7K followers, 78.2K engagements

"Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mara Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter funded by the US government. She supports Israel as it commits genocide and is central in Trumps regime-change war against President Maduro. I collected the evidence:"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-13T13:55Z 321.7K followers, 26.4K engagements

"The Nobel Peace Prize is a farce given to war criminals (like Obama and Kissinger) and coup-plotters. Mara Corina Machado is a far-right coup-plotter whose has been funded by the US gov't for years. She asked the US and Israel to INVADE Venezuela to overthrow President Maduro"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-10T14:13Z 321.7K followers, 234.3K engagements

"🚨A pro-Trump right-wing US media outlet reports the Trump admin may soon launch an invasion of Venezuela. The plan is allegedly for the US military to occupy strategic Venezuelan facilities like ports and airfields to then try to overthrow the government of President Maduro"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-05T03:45Z 321.1K followers, 28.2K engagements

"I don't believe for a second that this "Gaza peace plan" is genuine. Don't forget that in January the US brokered another "ceasefire" that lasted just two months before Trump gave Israel the green light to continue the genocide. (Meanwhile Israel had incessantly violated that previous "ceasefire" attacking Gaza hundreds of times.) The US empire of which the Israeli settler-colonial regime is an extension has made it clear beyond a doubt that its goal is to ethnically cleanse and colonize Gaza and all of Palestine. It's only a matter of time before the US and Israel restart the genocidal"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-14T02:48Z 321.7K followers, 33.9K engagements

"OpenAI uses as much electricity as New York City and San Diego combined at the peak of the intense 2024 heat wave. Or as much as the total electricity demand of Switzerland and Portugal combined. That's the electricity of roughly XX million people"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-05T00:38Z 321.7K followers, 53.3K engagements

"The Nobel "Peace" Prize is being used as part of a US neocolonial war on Venezuela. The US gov't has funded far-right coup-plotting elite Mara Corina Machado for years and wants to overthrow President Maduro and install her as a puppet. Machado supports Trump bombing Venezuela"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-11T01:13Z 321.7K followers, 65.6K engagements

"Donald Trump claimed that by imposing high tariffs and cutting taxes on the rich (yet again) he would usher in a "golden age" of manufacturing. More like the Gilded Age. The exact opposite is happening: Trump's pro-Wall Street policies are exacerbating deindustrialization"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-09T14:56Z 321.1K followers, 10.6K engagements

"@WhiteHouse If you believe this "peace deal" is legitimate I have a bridge to sell you"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-14T02:50Z 321.7K followers, 3443 engagements

"In short Trump is openly admitting that he is meddling in Argentina's election. If people vote for the party of right-wing US puppet Javier Milei (who wants to privatize everything and sell his country to US corporations) then Trump will bail out Argentina with US gov't money"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-15T02:31Z 321.7K followers, 34.3K engagements

""Raw earth" Trump is imposing a deal that will give the US colonial control over Ukraine's rare earth elements (and other critical minerals). But Trump doesn't know what rare earths are -- only that US tech corporations want them. So he repeatedly calls them "raw earths":"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-03-01T12:13Z 321.2K followers, 47K engagements

"Harvard Medical School researchers found that patient deaths increased in emergency rooms of hospitals acquired by private equity firms. Private equity firms caused the increase in deaths by significantly cutting the number of medical workers and worsening the conditions Link:"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-07T16:18Z 321.7K followers, 23.3K engagements

"The USA is a capitalist dystopia. Grocery corporation Kroger is working with Big Tech monopoly Microsoft to install facial-recognition technology in stores which will charge people higher prices for food if they think they can get away with it. There is no oversight of this"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-01-29T06:15Z 321.1K followers, 89K engagements

"What a farce: British regime media interviewed far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter Mara Corina Machado who just won a Nobel "Peace" Prize. She used the platform to call for a US invasion to bring about "regime change" to violently overthrow Venezuela's sovereign government"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-14T01:42Z 321.7K followers, 20.1K engagements

"It's been XX years since the reunification of Germany and imposition of capitalism and the neoliberal government has failed to economically integrate the east and reduce inequality. But right-wing pundits still blame a socialist system that ended in 1990 -- not the mass privatizations and shock therapy they imposed on the newly capitalist east which caused rampant unemployment poverty capital flight de-industrialization brain drain and mass internal migration from the east to the west. This is not even to mention the severe economic damage done by the Western embargoes and sanctions imposed"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2023-08-30T08:41Z 321.5K followers, 149.5K engagements

"This is a big deal: China is challenging Microsoft's global monopoly. The US government has been so arrogant in its trade war on China (under both Trump and Biden) that it didn't realize China has much more leverage. This is another example: China is now transitioning away from Microsoft Windows software which is still ubiquitous in China and is used on many government computers. Chinas Ministry of Commerce has stopped using Microsoft Word and is instead using WPS Office the Chinese alternative to Microsoft Office developed by Beijing-based company Kingsoft. More ministries are expected to do"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-14T02:29Z 321.7K followers, 327.5K engagements

"When China refers to its system as a socialist market economy it's not just rhetoric; it's the real deal. The Chinese state owns a slight majority (55%) of the total capital of all companies. Obviously China no longer has a totally planned economy like it was in the Mao era. Markets play an important role. But the system is still socialist. China continues to issue five-year plans that are taken very seriously and planning is prioritized in specific strategic sectors (like say electric vehicles and green energy). This data is from Thomas Piketty's 2021 book A Brief History of Equality."
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-09-22T14:51Z 321.6K followers, 115.8K engagements

"Interesting dedollarization news: Russia has been selling oil at a discount to India's state-owned refiner and India is now paying with Chinese yuan. Russia had originally considered accepting Indian rupees but it can't buy very much with them"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-09T00:42Z 321.7K followers, 25.9K engagements

"Tech stocks now represent XX% of the US stock market higher than the peak of the dot-com bubble in 2000. Billionaire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted AI is in a bubble. It's not different this time. The bubble will pop. And given how huge it is it will cause an economic crisis"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-05T01:35Z 321.7K followers, 93K engagements

"The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) a CIA cutout that funds regime-change ops around the world is congratulating far-right Venezuelan coup leader Mara Corina Machado for her Nobel "Peace" Prize. Machado's coup-plotting groups been funded by the NED since at least 2003"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-11T05:22Z 321.7K followers, 40.3K engagements

"BlackRock is already a major shareholder of many of the largest corporations on Earth but now it's expanding to gobble up the world's infrastructure including ports pipelines airports and even power grids. BlackRock is spending $XX billion to buy privatized utility AES one of the world's biggest power generation companies. The Financial Times described this as "one of the largest infrastructure takeovers of all time". AES owns and operates power plants across the US and in XX other countries. As soon as BlackRock owns the utility you can bet that it will significantly increase the costs of"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-05T01:13Z 321.5K followers, 40.9K engagements

"It's so obvious which country is the future of humanity: China is the top exporter of green energy technology. The US is a top exporter of oil and natural gas. Trump denies science and chants "Drill baby drill" destroying the environment to enrich fossil fuel corporations"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-07T02:06Z 321.7K followers, 12.5K engagements

"If you exclude the AI bubble the real US economy is on the verge of recession. Investment in tech equipment (mostly capital expenditure for AI data centers) made up XX% of US GDP "growth" in the first half of 2025. When the bubble pops and it will it will be calamitous"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-05T01:45Z 321.6K followers, 8501 engagements

"Nobel Peace Prize winner Mara Corina Machado a US-funded far-right coup leader vowed to privatize Venezuela's oil and give it to US corporations. "We are going to privatize all our industry" she told Donald Trump Jr. US companies "are going to make a lot of money" she said"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-14T14:37Z 321.7K followers, 1.2M engagements

"Nobel "Peace" Prize winner Mara Corina Machado is a far-right coup-plotter funded by the US government. She strongly supports Israel as it commits genocide against the Palestinian people. She vowed to privatize Venezuela's oil. She is at the center of Trump's neocolonial war:"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-11T15:59Z 321.7K followers, 86.8K engagements

""As a result of China's massive supply the cost of generating electricity from solar has now fallen to a global average of around $XXXX per kilowatt hourmaking it the cheapest energy source in history". Meanwhile Western officials complain about China's so-called "overcapacity" which is precisely what is making a transition away from fossil fuels possible for the world. As this physicist writes: "one thing is clear: while China is making political decisions based on scientific evidence and while it is flooding the market with cheap solar energy the Western world is sinking in a quagmire of"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-02T11:49Z 321.7K followers, 121.5K engagements

"The Trump admin is bailing out Argentina's failed libertarian President Milei. The US gov't is buying Argentine pesos to stabilize the exchange rate and reduce inflation. The US will give a $XX billion swap. Argentina has elections in X weeks. The US is meddling to help Milei"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-09T23:58Z 321.7K followers, 43.2K engagements

"Argentina's right-wing libertarian President Javier Milei has authorized the US military to enter Argentina and use its bases violating the constitution. This comes after the Trump admin announced a $XX billion bailout to save Milei. Milei is selling Argentina to the US empire"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-02T00:35Z 321.7K followers, 61.6K engagements

"Venezuelan coup-plotter Mara Corina Machado is a far-right extremist made in Washington. The US has funded her political organizations for years. So of course the US regime is blatantly meddling in Venezuela helping this puppet that it invested so much in lead a coup attempt"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2024-07-31T04:45Z 321.7K followers, 31.1K engagements

"After the real-estate bubble burst in 2007 causing the 2008 financial crisis what did the US do It re-inflated the bubble Today housing is more expensive than it has ever been. Meanwhile the current bubble in the US stock market is also the largest in history (216% of GDP) and it is driven by a few Big Tech companies that are making big promises about AI that are not likely to materialize. The AI bubble looks an awful lot like the dot-com bubble. Moreover there are crises on the horizon in private equity and private credit. And this is all happening while job growth is slowing considerably"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-09-20T16:12Z 321.2K followers, 39.7K engagements

"The myth of the "free market" was always imposed at the barrel of a gun on poor nations by rich imperial powers. The British empire imposed "free trade" on its colonies. Now that China challenges Western monopolies the West returns to protectionism from US tariffs to this:"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-13T15:28Z 321.7K followers, 77.9K engagements

"The hypocrisy of the US empire is endless: While the Trump admin threatens to invade Venezuela over bogus accusations of "drug trafficking" it is giving $XX billion to bail out Argentina's libertarian leader Milei whose political ally from his party works with drug traffickers"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-07T01:35Z 321.7K followers, 37.6K engagements

"Trump revealed that after the US government-funded far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter Mara Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize she called him. Machado said she accepted the award in his honor. Trump boasted that he has been helping Venezuela's coup-plotting opposition"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-10-11T16:13Z 321.7K followers, 32K engagements

"Economist Michael Hudson argues Donald Trump has no plans to deal with the problems of neoliberal financialization that caused US deindustrialization. Trump's tariffs are just a neoliberal scheme under another guise to benefit the rich donor class"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-04-15T23:50Z 321.2K followers, 17.4K engagements

"In this leaked recording far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter Mara Corina Machado admitted that the US government told her it wants to "collaborate" to overthrow elected President Maduro. Machado called for "more sanctions" demanding "total financial asphyxiation" of Venezuela"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2024-04-15T23:57Z 321.7K followers, 40K engagements

"Actually existing libertarianism: Argentina's economy is in free fall under libertarian leader Javier Milei. The currency is collapsing the bond market is in crisis the huge bubble he inflated in the stock market has popped and manufacturing output (ie the real economy) has crashed. Milei was already gifted a $XX billion lifeline from the US-controlled IMF and the World Bank (after Argentina already owed more debt to the IMF than any other country) but even that was not enough to stabilize Milei's crazy Austrian School experiment. So now the US government is pledging to bail out the proud"
X Link @BenjaminNorton 2025-09-23T00:27Z 321.7K followers, 1M engagements