The US presidential election always throws up a few good technology stories. President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign had very savvy use of tech, particularly when compared with John McCain's. But technology companies are going quite a bit further than supplying solutions this time around, and not in a good way.

Earlier this year, there were widespread reports that Tim Cook, Larry Page, Sean Parker, Elon Musk and others attended a closed meeting on a private island to discuss how to stop Donald Trump. In April, Mark Zuckerberg took pot shots at Trump's campaign at his annual developer conference, saying he hears fearful voices, "calling for building walls and distancing people they label as 'others'. I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and, in some cases, even for cutting access to the internet." Last month, Facebook was accused of manipulating its news feed to suppress stories with a conservative bias as well as discussing internally how to stop Trump 2017.