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Social media is a threat to democracy
LIKE THE TITANIC STEERING STRAIGHT INTO THE ICEBERG
Carole Cadwalladr speaks at TED2019
The greatest and most important TED talk of our time @carolecadwalla @TEDchris @facebook For more than a year, Cadwalladr has been probing a darkness at the heart of Silicon Valley. Her TED talk telling tech billionaires they had broken democracy has become a global viral sensation. Have a teenager? Know a teenager? Please watch & share. Nobody under 21 voted for this. I wrote this for them. They need to know the truth of what happened. The lies, the criminality, the failure to hold to account. It’s their future. Please share
https://blog.ted.com/social-media-is-a-threat-to-our-democracy-carole-cadwalladr-speaks-at-ted2019/
Journalist Carole Cadwalladr explores how social media platforms like Facebook exerted an unprecedented influence on voters in the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential election. She speaks during
Session 1 of TED2019: Bigger Than Us, on April 15, 2019 in Vancouver, BC, Canada
Cadwalladr has a call to action:
“Democracy is not guaranteed, and it is not inevitable. And we have to fight. And we have to win.
And we cannot let these tech companies have this unchecked power. It’s up to us: you, me and all of us.
We are the ones who have to take back control.”
DELETE FACEBOOK AND ALL IT’S OWNED APPS NOW
In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK’s super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union.
Oh wow. This is what happened after my talk at #TED2019. This bit is not in the video. @TEDchris invited @facebook to respond.
‘We will make time for you,’ he said. Instead, they made an official complaint about what I said. And then: silence
Oh wow. This is what happened after my talk at #TED2019. This bit is not in the video. @TEDchris invited @facebook to respond. ‘We will make time for you,’ he said. Instead, they made an official complaint about what I said. And then: silence
pic.twitter.com/NpBwDbmTHy— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 22, 2019
We are the ones who have to take back control.
THE FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, and TWITTERS, OF THE WORLD ARE CORRUPT DEMOCRACY KILLERS, AND SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM MONSTERS.
DIVEST DIVEST DIVEST.
My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair
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.
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.
You came into their temple,” he said. “And shat on their altar.”
2020 THE #NITCHIFICATION OF THE INTERNET
THE “HAVE IT YOUR WAY” — “HAVE IT WHEN YOU WANT IT” FRACTURED SOCIETY COLLECTIVE means there is no GOING VIRAL and famous for 15 minutes. NOW WE ALL WANT OUR 15 MINUTES OF PRIVACY
We only want to hear from the people in our circles.
We will turn off the internet fire hose experiment that started in 1994 with no security – whatsoever – (even though that generation built the bomb) and allowed it companies to COLLECT AND SELL DATA.
We will only want Technology explicitly for the purpose of being free from the surveillance capitalism. Federated social networks run people you know.
Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters — and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election —
We are the ones who have to take back control.
Cadwalladr calls out the “gods of Silicon Valley” for being on the wrong side of history and asks: Are free and fair elections a thing of the past?
Why you should listen
Carole Cadwalladr is a journalist for the Guardian and Observer in the United Kingdom. She worked for a year with #whistleblower Christopher Wylie to publish her investigation into Cambridge Analytica, which she shared with the New York Times. The investigation resulted in Mark Zuckerberg being called before Congress and Facebook losing more than $100 billion from its share price. She has also uncovered multiple crimes committed during the European referendum and evidence of Russian interference in Brexit. Her work has won a Polk Award and the Orwell Prize for political journalism, and she was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting in 2019.
Of her award-winning work, judge Sir David Bell wrote: She “deserves high praise for the quality of her research and for her determination to shed fierce light on a story which seems by no means over yet. Orwell would have loved it.”
Despite legal threats from both Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, Cadwalladr and her colleagues went public with their findings, publishing them in the Observer.
“Facebook: you were on the wrong side of history in that,” Cadwalladr says. “And you are on the wrong side of history in this.
In refusing to give us the answers that we need. And that is why I am here. To address you directly. The gods of Silicon Valley; Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg and Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Jack Dorsey, and your employees and your investors, too … We are what happens to a western democracy when a hundred years of electoral laws are disrupted by technology …
What the Brexit vote demonstrates is that liberal democracy is broken, and you broke it.”
Cadwalladr offers a challenge to tech companies:
“It is not about left or right, or Leave or Remain, or Trump or not. It’s about whether it’s actually possible to have a free and fair election ever again. As it stands, I don’t think it is. And so my question to you is: Is this what you want? Is this how you want history to remember you? As the handmaidens to authoritarianism that is on the rise all across the world? You set out to connect people and you are refusing to acknowledge that the same technology is now driving us apart.”
And for everyone else, Cadwalladr has a call to action: “Democracy is not guaranteed, and it is not inevitable. And we have to fight. And we have to win. And we cannot let these tech companies have this unchecked power. It’s up to us: you, me and all of us. We are the ones who have to take back control.”‘This is not democracy. Lies spread in darkness paid for with cash from God knows where.’ Two days ago I accused Facebook of breaking democracy. TEDchris told them they were free to respond at any time.
carolecadwalla/status/1120237389647990784 This is actually very important I think. @facebook refused to answer questions of British parliament. It refused to address international committee of 9 countries. But @TEDTalks is its spiritual home. These are its peers. And it can’t face them either. TED sponsor Facebook claimed @carolecadwalla's TED talk contained “factual inaccuracies” & demanded to see her script. What factual inaccuracies, we both wondered. “Let’s see what they come back with in the morning,” she said. Spoiler: they never did.
Here’s Trump praising @stevehilton -the man who convinced @michaelgove to back Brexit. Your reminder that this whole thing is a transatlantic shitshow. At Vote Leave, Gove oversaw biggest electoral fraud of the century & is now a govt minister. And Murdoch connects them all https://t.co/ZSH0DzoxOh
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 22, 2019
Why fascism is so tempting – and how your data could power it.
Definitions of Nationalism vs. Fascism
In a profound talk about technology and power, author and historian Yuval Noah Harari explains the important difference between fascism and nationalism — and what the consolidation of our data means for the future of democracy.