In conversation with curator Bruno Giussani, Cadwalladr discusses the latest on her reporting on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and what we still don’t know about the transatlantic links between Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election. TED.com translations are made possible by volunteer And on Monday, I entered it. In the early days, it was where the new miracles of technology were first unveiled – the Apple Macintosh and the CD-Rom – and in recent years it’s become the place that has most clearly articulated the Silicon Valley gospel. Carole Cadwalladr – TED Talk TRANSCRIPT The investigation resulted in Mark Zuckerberg being called before Congress and Facebook losing more than $100 billion from its share price. why hasn’t Mark Zuckerberg come to Britain and answered parliament’s questions. Carole Cadwalladr’s age is 51. 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. “And these are important conversations we need to have. These are brilliant men. Cadwalladr rose to international prominence in 2018 when she exposed the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Or as one attendee put it: “You came into their temple,” he said. Or understand it. Carole Cadwalladr, the British journalist who first exposed the Cambridge Analytica scandal, used a TED talk yesterday to blame Facebook and other tech giants for the undoing of Western democracy.. Why it matters: She called Britain and the Brexit vote the "canary in the coal mine" of what happens to democracy in the era of social media. © TED Conferences, LLC. The technology conference that has become a global media phenomenon with its short, punchy TED Talks that promote “Ideas Worth Spreading” is the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a safe space. When Cyndi Stivers, a TED director, asked me last summer if I’d be interested in doing a talk, I knew I would be terrified, but I knew I had to do it. There were problems, he admitted, but there was no point in quick fixes. Three years ago, more than 1,000 members of the TED global community convened in Banff, Canada, for the first-ever TEDSummit. Following is the full text of the presentation talk in Vancouver. But in the situation we are in, with the dangers we face, it’s not these kinds of brains. That liberal democracy was broken. Have a teenager? The investigative journalist who revealed the Cambridge Analytica scandal has demanded answers from tech giants about political ads. Carole Cadwalladr’s Ted Talk Delusion About Social Media And Democracy. We all know it. Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy, It’s not about privacy — it’s about power: Carole Cadwalladr speaks at TEDSummit 2019, Weaving Community: Notes from Session 1 of TEDSummit 2019, A first glimpse at the TEDSummit 2019 speaker lineup. In conversation with curator Bruno Giussani, Cadwalladr discusses the latest on her reporting on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and what we still don’t know about the transatlantic links between Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election. But TED is a tough, pressured, hugely stressful gig, even for experienced public speakers, and I’m not that. And it’s true he did. In her TED talk, Carole Cadwalladr called on the executives of Facebook and Twitter to come to the conference and discuss their role in influencing elections around the world. Facebook’s difficulty is that it had no grounds to challenge my statement. 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 one constant in the time I have been reporting this story has been the lack of mainstream broadcast coverage, the absence of other newspapers picking it up, the failure by even senior, well-respected journalists to understand the issues at stake, the wilful misinterpretation of the facts by the right-wing press, the almost total silence from both the government and the opposition. Arron Banks, the insurance businessman who co-founded the pro-Brexit Leave.EU campaign, has dropped two elements of his libel claim against the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. Now it's coming to Oxford. She speaks during Session 1 of TED2019: Bigger Than Us, on April 15, 2019 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Or massive electoral fraud in a once-in-a-lifetime, knife-edge vote. The Observer journalist was invited to give a talk in a session tagged Truth. Not least, I discovered, because I named them. “Who has the information, who has the […], The stage is set for TEDSummit 2019: A Community Beyond Borders! That night there was a dinner attended by Chris Anderson and a cadre of senior Facebook executives. Carole Cadwalladr is an investigative journalist and features writer. Last week, at a TED talk that became a global viral sensation, she told the tech billionaires they had broken democracy. Open Translation Project. On stage at TED, the journalist who helped expose the Cambridge Analytica scandal rebuked the heads of Facebook and other tech giants for helping erode democracy. “You were human. In the theatre, senior executives of Facebook had been “warned” beforehand. And within minutes of stepping off stage, I was told that its press team had already lodged an official complaint. She has also uncovered multiple crimes committed during the European referendum and evidence of Russian interference in Brexit. Though a member of the TED team told me, before the session had even ended, that Facebook had raised a serious challenge to the talk to claim “factual inaccuracies” and she warned me that they had been obliged to send them my script. Pinterest. What came across most strongly, chillingly, was the complete absence of emotion – any emotion – in Dorsey’s face, expression, demeanour or voice. The technology conference that has become a global media phenomenon with its short, punchy TED Talks that promote “Ideas Worth Spreading” is the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a safe space. Orwell would have loved it. The world needs all kinds of brains. Carole Cadwalladr blasts tech titans at TED: Your technology is “a crime scene” Not whether they're Donald Trump or Joe Biden, but just on the basic facts. “And shat on their altar.”. “But it’s been the thing that nobody had actually said.”. the reporting that we have been publishing in the. He went on to say that he has good friends in his hometown, "and yet when I talk to them about the 2020 election, they're on another planet. What happened next? The next day, on stage, Anderson interviewed Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter. In conversation with curator Bruno Giussani, Cadwalladr discusses the latest on her reporting on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and what we still don’t know about the transatlantic links between Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election. I can’t claim either credit or responsibility – I didn’t invite myself to the conference, held annually in Vancouver, or programme my talk in a session called “Truth”. 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