“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 details a fast-moving technological coup and the rise of the “broligarchy”: an unprecedentedly powerful class of tech executives (like Elon Musk) who are complicit in dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. She shares a guide on how to digitally disobey in this age of runaway corporate power, data harvesting and mass surveillance — and reminds you that you have more power than you think.
(Recorded at TED2025 on April 8, 2025)
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@BrianMcInnis87
April 10, 2025 at 5:08 pm
11:52 Not how that word’s pronounced, Carole, but go on.
@malice4422
April 10, 2025 at 5:11 pm
The most important Ted talk
@annerudnicki103
April 10, 2025 at 5:20 pm
Thank you for your courage to speak up and to continue speaking up after everything you’ve been through!
@pko9963
April 10, 2025 at 5:21 pm
Sounds like the Fair Game playbook of scientology
@peterdollins3610
April 10, 2025 at 5:27 pm
We must all support Carole & all brave journalists reporting the truth & the facts.
@maryprevoteau
April 10, 2025 at 5:58 pm
Thank you!
@nrgmn
April 10, 2025 at 6:19 pm
I fear people are not paying attention. I have followed Carole and her trial for years. She has sacrificed so much to come back. These are dangerous times. She was right about Cambridge Analytica, she’s right about this too.
@benvos876
April 10, 2025 at 6:29 pm
Honoring this speaker and her digital sovereignty
@persefonielux9976
April 10, 2025 at 6:34 pm
An Amazing Woman with the Strength of Ten Lions.
It’s a Coup indeed, Carole.
@catalinpanait507
April 10, 2025 at 7:13 pm
Fabulous
@roundpegsquareholes
April 10, 2025 at 7:25 pm
Get on Ghost!
@MPP241
April 10, 2025 at 7:27 pm
Did anyone tell her Musk took over Twitter? So police are no longer banning free speech. That’s only happening in UK now. It’s Gov not tech there.
@salmanasaj7254
April 10, 2025 at 7:39 pm
Perfect
@kingkelic9166
April 10, 2025 at 7:44 pm
Does this woman have any evidence of anything? “The data” sounds great but as far as I’m concerned she’s so bored she needs something to freak about. Every generation’s has their top dogs, their children will squander it, stop trying to control humans and human nature.. equates 2 entitlement. Don’t want your data out there? Don’t use their apps. It’s pretty simple. Don’t bother bring up Elon because dudes under constant watch and there’s no evidence.
@kingkelic9166
April 10, 2025 at 7:56 pm
Equating chat gpt to rape is an insult to every victim who has ever existed. This women is pathetic. Trump trump trump Russia Russia Russia you people are hellbent on victimhood
@carloslombas4891
April 10, 2025 at 8:09 pm
Watch the movie, “The Circle”. Based on Cupertino, CA.
@sbenglishlanguagecourses1246
April 10, 2025 at 8:11 pm
If the world were full of brave people like Carole, we’d all be better.
@newpilgrim
April 10, 2025 at 8:28 pm
There is no such thing as privacy.
@tobiasweberingold
April 10, 2025 at 8:35 pm
Incredible! That’s courage, that’s commitment.
@HakWilliams
April 10, 2025 at 8:42 pm
Coup coup cachoo
@amn5860
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 pm
They’re billionaires walking on shifting sand.
@alexinaboxx
April 10, 2025 at 8:53 pm
What about the people in the UK that are getting jail time for posts on social media for the wrong kind of opinion?
@MatthewFinchest
April 10, 2025 at 8:54 pm
Retweet for likes.
@EmbersToWings
April 10, 2025 at 9:13 pm
We are now connected to each other more than ever before. Our phones, our cars, our homes… Cities run on vast, complex networks. And in these networks, everything is connected. And interconnected systems provide access. Access provides information. Information provides power. The more connected we become, the more vulnerable we are. Every innovation comes with a cost. Our digital footprint will follow us everywhere. Corporations, governments, they all see us as data. They do not see us as people. They don’t think we are worth more than the data we produce.
@robingreenlee3266
April 10, 2025 at 9:19 pm
So many great TED talks, and this is the BEST!
@JabbarRafique
April 10, 2025 at 9:23 pm
Not quite accurate. You can’t turn it off.
@chikenjr
April 11, 2025 at 7:44 pm
wow, thanks
@circuitman37
April 11, 2025 at 7:45 pm
Wat Tyler!
@satori-in-life
April 11, 2025 at 7:53 pm
Absolute idiocy.
@Michael-k3d
April 11, 2025 at 7:58 pm
“Navalny painted a beautiful picture of the future” Yes Carole……the racist painted a picture of Russia where everyone had guns and Muslims were cockroaches and flies. Be careful who you quote to argue your case.
@pattimcfarlane8504
April 11, 2025 at 7:58 pm
To witness your courage and smarts is a complete honour! Thank you !
@JudyMitchell-f6b
April 11, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Democracy is a woefully inadequate means to orchestrate human activity. It has been the best of the worst. Rising over the offing is a new order above and beyond any human collective. What is it? Artificial intelligence. Soon, or in the not too distant future, artificial intelligence will show humans in all context what are the best options. Only one thing remains: human deliberation over which of the options artificial intelligence reveals are best. No one, no group, or collective of humans are going to stand above artificial intelligence. Why? No human nor group will be able to produce superior data. This will not divide mankind, it will bring us together, unite us even as DNA does every cell in the human body.
@Mrcablewake
April 11, 2025 at 8:02 pm
Thank you. Courage.
@iamwhoilove
April 11, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Their goal was to flood the world with false, pseudo-truths, so that when actual truths get revealed; they are discarded in the same manner. Doubt can re-write history by those with an agenda.
They have been tracking you since the invention of the ATM.
It’s not just about tracking, it’s about control.
Stop believing you are thinking for yourself; you have been indoctrinated.
@Jdos7394
April 11, 2025 at 8:08 pm
Leaving a comment. Gave it the thumbs up. Just shared it. Let’s get this to the WHOLE PLANET!!!
@Akash.Chopra
April 11, 2025 at 8:19 pm
Though I commend your mission and bravery, I would choose my words more wisely.
1. Claiming all Silicon Valley companies harvest data is a huge oversimplification. Many, like Intel, AMD, Adobe, and Nvidia, don’t rely on that model. You’re generalizing based on a small segment of the tech industry.
2. Signing a deal with Open AI is not akin to rape, and it marginalizes the victims of a horrific and brutal act.
@GrenvilleMelonseedSkiff496
April 11, 2025 at 8:23 pm
It’s a coup but try telling that to the 77.3M folks who drank the Trump Koolaid. There might not be an antidote but try we must lest we not forget the sacrifices of those who defended democracy over the last century.
@ultravioletiris6241
April 11, 2025 at 9:28 pm
Everyone is drinking some flavor of koolaid
@marxxthespot
April 11, 2025 at 8:25 pm
The purpose of the liberal class is to give capitalism a conscience. The problem with that is there is no”invisible hand” as Adam Smith called it. In other words, the market has no conscience. Since the liberal class failed at delivering the impossible, they oh so subtly sold out. For example, the “too little too late” corporate Democrats in the United States started to treat every problem as a PR & marketing problem instead of confronting power with truth. As a result, rank and file Americans living check to check never had a chance to see the train coming. The Democrats became our blind fold… and now that the train wreck has happened… they expect us to trust them. We don’t.
@skit555
April 11, 2025 at 8:26 pm
Feels like a political rally serving the validation of an anxious person afraid of techno-feodalism. It’s not there to serve an actual scientific view based on facts therefore I don’t see anything reliable beside that this person is hurt.
@thenewaeon
April 11, 2025 at 8:26 pm
Algorithm
@caseytunturi8274
April 11, 2025 at 8:34 pm
Truly inspirational! – Gah, it feels like these words don’t carry the weight I mean…
@BradleyPerkins-w2d
April 11, 2025 at 8:36 pm
Truth to power.
@martinhay1998
April 11, 2025 at 8:40 pm
Very closely associated with the climate change issue and very much intertwined.
Many good people sounding the alarm with mediocre response.
Both issues unfolding before our eyes.
The ironic tie is A1 use of so much energy to operate, exasperating the climate chaos further and faster.
Please share Carole’s brave story.
@GIinXiLe
April 11, 2025 at 8:41 pm
This is what bravery looks like.
@watm80
April 11, 2025 at 8:45 pm
What is she actually advocating? Ok she doesn’t like her data being harvested. Now what? What is it she wants to do, for us to do? Resist isn’t enough, how are you going to put the genie back in the bottle when millions of jobs and billions of dollars rely on the “tech bros” as she put it. She states the problem. What’s the solution?
@raerush6330
April 11, 2025 at 8:51 pm
Nothing is woth more than your freedom of knowledge 2025🎩🎩💪💪
@GeraldSmallbear
April 11, 2025 at 8:56 pm
I don’t know if her narrative is accurate but I did know the backlash was coming decades ago.
You were all warned.
TED itself was warned. Over and over again.
But you didn’t listen.
You were warned about creating the infrastructure of political oppression. You were warned that it would be used against you.
As for myself, I’m going off grid.
For the rest of you, who created this mess: you reap what you sow.
@Nat-111
April 11, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Can anyone list some things we should do other than not allow cookies and use Signal?
@jessicagreen1478
April 11, 2025 at 9:07 pm
I thought about leaving the teaching profession as a history teacher. ….. no. They’ll have to remove me.
@raindrops-fall
April 11, 2025 at 9:20 pm
Many of us knew it was a digital coup the week of the inauguration when doge and musk invaded the IT systems of the government. Wired was doing great reporting right away. It was and is an invasion and a hostile takeover and coup. The project 2025 people said during the transition it was going to be just that, a hostile takeover. It comes down to us, we the people do have the power.
@donmcleod8307
April 11, 2025 at 9:29 pm
Everyone should listen to this
@maisydaisy9216
April 12, 2025 at 8:06 pm
EXACTLY!!!
@TechSiyaad
April 12, 2025 at 8:14 pm
Have a thought for the poor people of Africa and elsewhere who have been overrun with so called latest smartphones with the mighty Meta, alphabet apps to harvest their data and waste their time without credible knowhow and governments to protect them.
@tiotito31
April 12, 2025 at 8:15 pm
What’s really terrifying is our children won’t know any better. They won’t know what was lost. This will be their default.
@stevenmcgrew869
April 12, 2025 at 9:28 pm
Oh the poor children! Won’t anyone think of the poor children!
Maybe if this was a real problem.
@PaulJurczak
April 12, 2025 at 8:16 pm
I see here a confusion between courageous reporting and Trump Derangement Syndrome. Russiagate was nothing but a tool for political manipulation by Democrats. This doesn’t justify the abuse levelled at Cadwalladr, of course.
@BaconIsGood4You
April 12, 2025 at 8:19 pm
This narcissistic authoritarian is pure projection. Listen to her breathlessly winge, this talk is 100% pure emotion, no specifics, no facts, no ideas.
She advocates for lockdowns – she is authoritarian. She is the censor.
She propagandizes for war with Russia and never mentions NATO provocations like Nuland’s Maidan Revolution and selection of Yatsenyuk, Blinken bombing of Nordstream, Zelinsky murdering US journalist Gonzalo Lira, etc.
She is a tool of a senile bureaucratic empire. She is funded by Open Society, IE Soros + USAID.
@triawillow1972
April 12, 2025 at 8:23 pm
The only reason she’s breathlessly upset is because the last time she spoke at a TED talk y’all tried to silence her, you are the one that is a liar here and you are the one that is a narcissist with this comment it’s quite clear
@stevenmcgrew869
April 12, 2025 at 9:26 pm
@@triawillow1972Nah, I think he nailed it.
@BaconIsGood4You
April 12, 2025 at 9:28 pm
@@triawillow1972 Criticism is not silencing. What am I lying about? I searched and only saw advocacy of lockdowns, couldn’t find her reporting about NATO provocations, etc. Only manufacturing consent for the escalation with Russia.
Check the about page of her organization, The Citizens – it directly states they’re paid by The Open Society. She has a financial interest in the status quo of the state that she does not disclose.
@davefav
April 12, 2025 at 8:24 pm
That’s real strength and commitment. I see a Nobel prize in Carole’s future. However, it’s a long way from here to there.
@stevenmcgrew869
April 12, 2025 at 9:25 pm
Wow, you really fell for this, huh?
@DarkStar-ng5nl
April 12, 2025 at 8:28 pm
It is time for the “ Great Disconnect “.
@space_ork
April 12, 2025 at 8:36 pm
no link for the talked about TED talk?
@chalermako
April 12, 2025 at 8:40 pm
Really did not learn anything new about tech capture of Government from this talk.
What I did note is the emphisis on Men. There’s a lot Women working freely in the Broligarchy.
It’s time to stop ostracising Boys who become Men. You won’t build a strong alliance with only 51% of people.
@stevenmcgrew869
April 12, 2025 at 9:23 pm
Hey look Mr. [no name] is back 😂
@stevenmcgrew869
April 12, 2025 at 9:24 pm
She is in a party of Karens. No one likes a Karen except for other Karens.
@jo9732
April 12, 2025 at 8:44 pm
Sounds like this is because the UK has no first amendment. You all need to step up.
@stevenmcgrew869
April 12, 2025 at 9:22 pm
The UK isn’t blocking leftist speech, they’re blocking the right.
@brettw7
April 12, 2025 at 8:56 pm
What a theater kid reaction! The leftists are the ones dismantling western democracies. Look only at the constant assaults on free speech on both sides of the ocean.
@thomaslucignano5188
April 12, 2025 at 8:56 pm
I see the manipulation. I often wonder, though… did social media make us fascists though outrage algorithms? Or did it just free the world to take off their masks & reveal our ugliness?
@stevenmcgrew869
April 12, 2025 at 8:59 pm
All emotions, no facts. You need to be able to back up what you’re claiming.
@stevenmcgrew869
April 12, 2025 at 9:18 pm
Replying to [no name].
Typical response. Do you have anything constructive? She had no facts. Do you have any to offer?
@brycelynch2306
April 12, 2025 at 9:00 pm
I agree 100% the 1% are just waiting for enough robots to get rid of us.
@JDignum
April 12, 2025 at 9:02 pm
We are NOT powerless.
@stevenmcgrew869
April 12, 2025 at 9:20 pm
But you are delusional
@a9503128
April 12, 2025 at 9:04 pm
Fire up this is powerful. This should define how we exist for a generation.
@michaelsotomayor5001
April 12, 2025 at 9:06 pm
“broligarchy”
nah bro, this I would call “terrorism”
@mprest10
April 12, 2025 at 9:06 pm
Kudos to you Carole! 👍👏
@ronaldluning4010
April 12, 2025 at 9:06 pm
Everybody deserves privacy, nobody deserves secrecy.
@DrNancyLivingCoCreatively
April 12, 2025 at 9:10 pm
Agree about Bannon. He thinks he’s the Magician.
@totalt6600
April 12, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Its not that we don’t know,it’s we don’t care.
@carynmartin6053
April 12, 2025 at 9:13 pm
The leaders of countries are now inviting popular podcasters to secretly meet with them and uphold the Chatham rule of silence about whatever is discussed!😮
@DrNancyLivingCoCreatively
April 12, 2025 at 9:16 pm
Truly proufound. Thank you deeply.
@stevenmcgrew869
April 12, 2025 at 9:19 pm
Karens unite!
@choochtrain
April 12, 2025 at 9:19 pm
If you are a friend or relative of a broligarch, please show him this video.
@BTinHD
April 12, 2025 at 9:23 pm
Notice how all the comments on here are praising the speaker. Maybe that’s something to be skeptical about. Some of what she says is valid. On the other hand, she is plainly wrong in other parts.
@ww82417
April 13, 2025 at 7:48 pm
why did they let this partisan hack on stage? TDS in full effect. Guaranteed she wouldn’t be up there if the same panel of leaders was up on stage were Kamala elected.
@kimpa3417
April 13, 2025 at 7:50 pm
The actual is she gagging about? She’s literally describing the Biden administration in detail. SMH
@Richard_Potato
April 13, 2025 at 7:53 pm
17+ minutes of wesponized hot flashes and zero facts…
Keep it up. Seriously.
@JosephSilv4
April 13, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Akuuuuuuuuuuuu!
@thecosmicprime
April 13, 2025 at 8:05 pm
She inspires me.
@anonymous-tn6ij
April 13, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Just look at the comments the problem is the people they don’t get any of it and they’re not involved. The comments are like she’s brave or someone says some cliché quote that they heard no one saying what they’re ever going to do about it because nobody’s going to do anything about it. Nobody care is going to develop a plan. Nobody here is going to organize their community. Nobody here has a plan because they’re so used to watching fiction. They could either watch you get emotional or watch Grey’s Anatomy. They don’t realize that the government is always fundraising. They’re always trying to find a way to get more money out of you And how to get continual raises every year. The tariffs are just attacks. Trump got the whole world to raise their taxes that’s what happened that’s all that happened. There’s no country against it because every country jumped in on the Tax bandwagon and nobody sees that every country just raise the tax on all these businesses and all the prices of goods are going to go up that means all your sales taxes is going to go up the government decided to get involved with private businesses to raise their prices. The government shouldn’t be price fixing, and the government shouldn’t be disguising taxes as some kind of tariff to save the world economy to save America. He should be arrested for doing so he just decided to make businesses struggle, possibly fail and pay higher taxes, and all these leaders are in a back room, lighting cigars, and laughing because they just got more money out of everyone and the public is stupid otherwise they would throw these bums out
@davidrobinson9507
April 13, 2025 at 8:06 pm
Thank you for your words and clarity. The rich and powerful are doing whatever they can do, to crowd out and quash as many problematic people as they can. I’m sure I’m marked as no friend of the system. My saving grace is that I’m old; just 65, but old enough to be thought of as a harmless old geezer.
In 1994, my best friend went down to silicon valley from Toronto, to work for the big technical revolution and we drifted apart completely. I’ve sort of known all my life that this stuff would happen.
Good help us all .
@kirstyguard6023
April 13, 2025 at 8:06 pm
Solidarity.Thanks for your bravery
@thesoundsmith
April 13, 2025 at 8:10 pm
She is absolutely correct. We ARE screwed. The only way out is one we will not take.
@melodicmonster
April 13, 2025 at 8:13 pm
If you want to know more about what is happening, look up Curtis Yarvin and the dark enlightenment. JD Vance is a strong proponent of his ideas, and many current events in American politics will begin to make sense once you are aware of his influence over our politicians. For example, Yarvin details a strategy called RAGE – retire all government employees. This is exactly what DOGE is doing to our country right now.
@robertglowinski5617
April 13, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Where is Bill Gates and Geoge Soros in your “speach”
@Erebus369
April 13, 2025 at 8:17 pm
I’ve removed my online presence and scrubbed my data in the last 2 years. You’re a bit late to the party. You have to remove all your social media use. And anything that they can collect.
@LofiMagick69
April 13, 2025 at 8:18 pm
You Brave, courageous Woman! !We are strong! Us together!!❤Thank you!
@PaulHenning84
April 13, 2025 at 8:19 pm
She’s briddish, her country banned end to end encryption she has zero place to talk.
@savage.4.24
April 13, 2025 at 8:28 pm
Dale gribble is making more and more sense-dont Feed the beast! He was saying dont put your personal information out there. Dont fill out surveys dont pit down your phone and email. Not only do u get a ton of junk from it but thats exactly the data they want. I have used a vpn for over a decade. Some folks are just now discovering what that even is. Thats like spotting a fire when the house is fully engulfed -entirely too late to save the house but you can save the neighbors
@JessB009
April 13, 2025 at 8:35 pm
We’re not perfect but my goodness are we going to put up a fight.
@joshua-c44-stephen
April 13, 2025 at 8:37 pm
11:11 – 11:44 Or imply co-development of tangential breadcrumb trails. Is someone talking about the first democratic online institution over there?
@timstapleman
April 13, 2025 at 8:54 pm
Interesting until the quote from Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny”. Professor at Yale but also an apologist for the fascist, authoritarian undemocratic regime in Ukraine. He is a guest on many events organised by questionable right-wing thinktanks. He covers the intellectual acadenic base of the Russiophobic propaganda machine. His Incoherent ramblings only create confusion and doubt about the conflict. He is deliberately misleading about it. Navalny was a cadidate for Mayor of Moscow, which he lost. He was not leading opposition. He was also a racist. And the Guardian? Completely unreliable half-truths and Russiophobic propaganda. So this is yet more war promotion. What’s happened to journalism?
@johncitizen8828
April 13, 2025 at 8:58 pm
@5:40 — someone was WAY too excited about the prospect of ‘living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.’ 👀
@CharlesJones-x4n5o
April 13, 2025 at 9:06 pm
I saw this thumbnail and thought ” Its on TED and likely has to do with something related to what we are having Trump and Elon do to crumble the old order”. It was. Let me explain something dear. You have a lot of gall to get up there and preach about saving the old order and how we are a threat to democracy. Do the people you are trying to reach know what it is that your side had planned? Do they realize the implications of what you wanted and the subversive tactics that were used along with an activist ideology that had a deficit in honor and integrity? Since at least 2002 your think tanks have been, in their own words, using broad spectrum activism and mass immigration to weaken the sovereignty of all Western nations and restrict personal freedoms. IN THEIR OWN WORDS they looked forward to soon being able to establish a “soft” tyranny. Digital. So don’t stand there and try to flip the script on us and think it will work.
Democratic Institutions? Oh yes. That was how you “redefined” democracy a few years ago. Lets get something straight. Your democratic institutions are nothing but inorganic entities that feed off the populace. They do this first by the power that the individual grants unto them and if they had remained in service to the populace that would have been fine but it was not enough. Now they want control. Never going to be allowed dear. We are going to purge the entrenched activists in our administrative state, dismantle the NGOs, 501s and corporations involved in socio-political activism. Their assets will be seized and used to rebuild what you have sought to destroy and laws will be put in place to prevent this type of subversion and infiltration from recurring. When the wall fell your side betrayed what was best for us. You wanted a system more akin to the vision of China. We do not. We should have and hopefully will, join with Russia in preserving freedom.
Have you looked at the EU and UK recently? The citizens are being arrested for their speech or religious expression. Do you know why? I do. It appears as if those behind the scenes have gotten it into their heads that in the near future they can enact a plan that will result in a populace that listens to their leaders. This is done by combining Church & State and transitioning to an official religion that has shown itself to “obey” their leaders (because they are speaking from divinity) instead of one that tells them that they too can rise to the heights of divinity.
@robinsandhoff8113
April 13, 2025 at 9:07 pm
This was hands down the best speech I’ve heard in years. Bravo! We are not powerless!
@MthwNico
April 13, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Been saying this was their plan since 2015. Nobody cared to listen in the rural Midwest 😒
@JC-justchillin
April 13, 2025 at 9:10 pm
Network State actors. Billionaire tech bros want total power, to limit resistance to their grand plan. Playing with our lives because they can. Creating a single comprehensive record of our life and compressing into a single sorce of assimilation.
@Poon1312
April 13, 2025 at 9:14 pm
Why invent new words when the root cause has always been the same? It’s capitalism…. not bRoLiGaRcHy.
You’re not doing anyone a favour by jumping around this simple truth
@libbygenxmum
April 13, 2025 at 9:19 pm
👏👏👏👏👏👏 thank you for saying this so articulate what people like me are thinking.
👋😊🇦🇺
@pez_the_person
April 14, 2025 at 6:24 pm
What a miraculous assessment of the world we’re in today & the future that lay ahead. Inspiring to see such thoughtful & compassionate leaders taking a stand for what’s right for the world.
@byronspires8603
April 14, 2025 at 6:30 pm
The people that get it are watching this and agreeing. By what mechanisn can the masses who dont understand this, but vote, be reached? Hollywood? Other enlightning entertainment for the masses?
@lalahouton998
April 14, 2025 at 6:38 pm
Wait one second! Trump did not receive his first amendment rights as the President of the United States of America – Freedom of speech!!!! He was banned from Twitter. So he is not one of the tech bros and I hazard a guess knows all of the issues with censorship by tech.
The mainstream media lies every day about Trump and never writes anything positive about him, so it’s is obvious they have one political stance. He has more in common with the person speaking than she will ever know!
Agreed, the tech bros use your data for monetary purposes, but that’s everyone’s data and eroding privacy. Not just one victimised section of society like you make out here.
Good luck living in a world where government spend all your money with no recompense, just like the UK government at the moment. We need someone to budget the Uk government correctly and yes we have a bloated government, just look at the deficits everywhere. Nations in massive debts. Americans will be very happy when their country prospers again, and it will under President Trump.
Perhaps it’s time to stop spinning the persecution as political and talk purely about data privacy! Did you get your accounts banned on these social media platforms? You seem to have people giving their opinion in what should be considered a free society. And, No, you definitely didn’t get banned. The president of the United States of America did. He’s on the case to do something about that (I believe, but I also could be wrong). And I believe you might end up being proud of him! If you can look past your political blinkers and what mainstream media tells you about who the boogyman is!
@shadowofmyfutureself
April 14, 2025 at 6:46 pm
An amazing, brave, courageous, determined, INSPIRING person Carole Cadwalladr is
@klaasbil8459
April 14, 2025 at 6:46 pm
I tried to download this video for future reference, because I fear it might not survive for long online. But YouTube doesn’t let me – what’s that?
@jasonvancleve8140
April 14, 2025 at 6:47 pm
Too much vague pablum.
@Biga101011
April 14, 2025 at 6:56 pm
10:50 Dumb dumb dumb….. Sooooooo Vance was right?
@paulcarter7445
April 14, 2025 at 6:58 pm
Tribal nonsense, no mention of Soros and his ilk, just upset that identity and wokeness is no longer a passport to power.
@egormragov3908
April 14, 2025 at 7:04 pm
This was strong.
@chickenlampbrent
April 14, 2025 at 7:32 pm
She’s absolutely right, and I believe she has integrity but the Guardian? Saints preserve us, journalistic integrity is just not in their lexicon. That organization is part of the problem.
@MsTiLaJ
April 14, 2025 at 7:33 pm
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
@MeJonTheDon
April 14, 2025 at 7:49 pm
The media isn’t the enemy. But bought and paid for main stream media certainly are
@Twichild
April 14, 2025 at 7:50 pm
Brave woman. More power to her. Her courage is something to aspire to.
@Truenorthstrongandfree22
April 14, 2025 at 7:55 pm
How much money did Carney pay her to do this before election?
DISGUSTING .
I don’t believe Elon or Trump are the problem. You want to talk about this stuff, talk about META and China, Carneys censorship, the fact or main stream media is controlled by the Left.
@ariana42
April 14, 2025 at 7:56 pm
So true, I did not consent ChatGPT, data rights are human rights, this is so important, heed the warnings, when do we get to file a class action suit, I don’t even want money from it just my security
@ArchangelMegathron
April 14, 2025 at 8:04 pm
Coup against presidents who don’t have harvard and business degrees, apparently.
@alexyung5371
April 14, 2025 at 8:36 pm
She’s demented.
@alexyung5371
April 14, 2025 at 8:40 pm
Was she complaining when tech compagnies were pushing wokeism and censuring and surveilling conservatives ? Oh but now it’s the Stasi … right …
@texasveteran5304
April 14, 2025 at 8:51 pm
Not one word about following the money. Nothing about how Putin’s oligarchs launder money in the City of London. TED talks are propaganda. Always have been.
@Lanewreck
April 14, 2025 at 8:56 pm
MGS2 bad ending is real. And it’s here. People, of the world. Rise up.
@promax1001
April 14, 2025 at 8:59 pm
She’s right in most of her ramblings but Trump said: “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”
@karlkirkwood6213
April 14, 2025 at 9:03 pm
George Carlin did an entire comedy set that’s almost identical to this.
@KatherineHolbrook-c2c
April 14, 2025 at 9:09 pm
I have known along time ago as well
@strategies4health
April 14, 2025 at 9:14 pm
In considering Carole Cadwalladr’s warnings about the erosion of democracy through technology, a pertinent question arises: so what makes this moment in time any different? To address this, I’d like to draw your attention to a historical perspective offered in The School of Life video “History as a Cure for Our Times” from a 2016 YouTube upload. It provides a framework for understanding today’s challenges within the continuum of societal crises.
The presentation offers the example of ancient Rome, as chronicled by Suetonius, where emperors like Caligula and Nero embodied chaos and tyranny—moments that might have signaled the end of a civilization. Yet, Rome persisted, later flourishing under the wise governance of Marcus Aurelius. This historical arc underscores a recurring truth: societies frequently confront threats that appear existential, only to adapt and endure. Bear with me now. The crises of today—marked by data manipulation, the pervasive influence of AI, and the consolidation of power among tech giants—bear similarities to past struggles with unchecked authority and influence, whether wielded by industrial magnates (Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, etc or master propagandists, like Edward Bernays, who ushered in the era of manipulating the masses).
What distinguishes this moment, however, lies in the nature and scale of the tools at play. Yes, while power has always found ways to concentrate, the current era equips it with a global, instantaneous reach and an unparalleled capacity to harvest personal data. Unlike the visible despots of history, today’s forces operate through subtle, pervasive systems—algorithms and surveillance networks—that shape collective behavior without a single, identifiable face. This invisible consortium of influence marks a departure from the more tangible adversaries of the past.
Yes, we should unite against the ever-present despair lurking in every corner of our psyche—a despair amplified by the legacy media’s fear narratives—a despair that is also easily triggered by alarmist messages, Carole’s, (though often sincere in their intent) Should we not highlight our resilience as the thread that has historically sustained societies in the past? Rome’s survival through its darkest rulers illustrates that adaptation, not capitulation, SHOULD be the response to such threats. In our time, this might translate to deliberate efforts (as Carole suggested), safeguarding personal data, advocating for transparency in technological systems, and cultivating a critically engaged public. These actions, though not definitive solutions, reflect the same steadfastness that carried past generations through turmoil. Am I wrong here?
Thus, this moment is distinct not because it is uniquely apocalyptic—history is replete with such episodes—but because of the sophistication of its challenges and our heightened awareness of them. By situating Cadwalladr’s concerns within this broader narrative, we see that the difference lies in our opportunity: equipped with historical insight, we possess the means to respond thoughtfully, channeling resilience into action rather than yielding to fear.
@vladracul40
April 14, 2025 at 9:24 pm
THOSE ARE CRIMINALS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.