Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show

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This was an excellent interview, important information shared!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7CvbccdVM

 

“I think what is happening in America is they are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state.” Carole Cadwalladr, the award-winning journalist behind the Substack newsletter “How to Survive the Broligarchy,” talks to Jon Stewart about how the U.S. government ignored the huge wake-up call that was the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook data breach scandal – a story Cadwalladr broke and which resulted in no legislative protections for citizens’ private data. She warns about the unregulated dangers that data-mining and AI pose to individual privacy and freedom, and what people and institutions can do to push back on big tech’s authoritarian agenda.

Cadwalladr has been on top of this stuff for a while. I teach one of her articles "Google, Democracy and the Truth about Internet Search" from 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-trut...

Wow that hits home. I'm not a huge online presence cept for The Zone, but shit now I want to ditch my cell phone and never send an email again.