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Elena Rossini ⁂ (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 02:37:51 JST Elena Rossini ⁂

I just watched the most brilliant TED Talk by Carole Cadwalladr "This is what a digital coup looks like"
🔗: https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like
It's filled with memorable, superb quotes about the broligarchy. A must see, to be shared widely.
But then I looked up Cadwalladr's online activity. She uses Bluesky for social and Substack for publishing. This is impossibly incongruous after her incendiary TED talk.
Honestly, it made me sad. One place is owned by crypto bros, the other is funded by A16Z...
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  Carole Cadwalladr: This is what a digital coup looks like
  
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  “We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “broligarchy” — the powerful tech executives who are using their global digital platforms to amass unprecedented geopolitical power, dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. Her rallying cry: resist data harvesting and mass surveillance, and support others in a groundswell of digital disobedience. “You have more power than you think,” she says. (This talk contains mature language.)

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