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Facebook gets called out at TED for breaking democracy
- Friday | 26th April, 2019
It’s subversion, and you are accessories to it.”And when she ended her talk saying: “we cannot let these tech companies have this unchecked power. Facebook executives present at TED 2019 also declined an onstage invitation from TED curator Chris Anderson to speak later in the week to address the issue and “explain how you see the way forward”. ITEM: Carole Cadwalladr – the journalist with The Observer who was instrumental in breaking the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story – opened last week’s TED 2019 conference with a talk in which she directly addressed the heads of Facebook, Google and Twitter and called them out for aiding and abetting election fraud and breaking democracy. The video has gone massively viral, and Facebook is reportedly not happy. We are the ones who have to take back control,” she left the stage to a standing ovation.
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