<unlike-us> Cadwalladr takes on tech gods

[Doug Schuler]

I did take the reporting that we have been publishing in the
<https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2018/sep/29/cambridge-analytica-cadwalladr-observer-facebook-zuckerberg-wylie>*Observer
<https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2018/sep/29/cambridge-analytica-cadwalladr-observer-facebook-zuckerberg-wylie>*
over the
<https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2018/sep/29/cambridge-analytica-cadwalladr-observer-facebook-zuckerberg-wylie>past
two and a half years
<https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2018/sep/29/cambridge-analytica-cadwalladr-observer-facebook-zuckerberg-wylie>,
I did condense it into a 15-minute talk, and I did deliver it on the TED
main stage directly to the people I described as “the Gods of Silicon
Valley: Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jack
Dorsey”. The founders of Facebook and Google – who were sponsoring the
conference – and the co-founder of Twitter – who was speaking at it.

I did tell them that they had facilitated multiple crimes in the EU
referendum. That as things stood, I didn’t think it was possible to have
free and fair elections ever again. That liberal democracy was broken. And
they had broke it.

It was only later that I began to realise quite what TED had done: how, in
this setting, with this crowd, it had committed the equivalent of inviting
the fox into the henhouse. And I was the fox. Or as one attendee put it:
“You came into their temple,” he said. “And shat on their altar.”
from:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/21/carole-cadwalladr-ted-tech-google-facebook-zuckerberg-silicon-valley

https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy

-- 
Douglas Schuler
douglas at publicsphereproject.org
Twitter: @doug_schuler

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