My TED talk: how I
took on the tech titans in their lair
Carole Cadwalladr
For more than a year,
the Observer writer has been probing a darkness at the heart of Silicon Valley.
Last week, at a TED talk that became a global viral sensation, she told the
tech billionaires they had broken democracy. What happened next?
The Observer Cambridge Analytica
Sun 21 Apr 2019 08.00 BST
(…) “On the TED stage, dressed in a hat and a
hood, Dorsey (*) appeared – and I can’t think of any other way of saying this –
insentient. And when I make the same observation to an older tech titan, he
tells me how he once went with Zuckerberg on a 15-hour flight on a private jet
with 16 other people and Zuckerberg never said a word to anyone for the entire
duration.” (…)
(…) “Dorsey can see the iceberg but doesn’t
seem to feel our terror. Or understand it. In an interview last summer, US
journalist Kara Swisher, repeatedly asked Zuckerberg how he felt about
Facebook’s role in inciting genocide in Myanmar – as established by the UN –
and he couldn’t or wouldn’t answer.
The world needs all kinds of brains. But in the
situation we are in, with the dangers we face, it’s not these kinds of brains.
These are brilliant men. They have created platforms of unimaginable
complexity. But if they’re not sick to their stomach about what has happened in
Myanmar or overwhelmed by guilt about how their platforms were used by Russian
intelligence to subvert their own country’s democracy, or sickened by their own
role in what happened in New Zealand, they’re not fit to hold these jobs or wield
this unimaginable power.” (…)
Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd.
(*)Twitter co-founder
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