A room that fell silent when I ended and then erupted in whoops and cheers. In fairness, what multi-billion dollar corporation with armies of PRs, lawyers and crisis teams, not to mention, embarrassingly, our former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, wouldn’t want to push back on the charge that it has broken democracy? And it’s true he did. There are only five people in the room who apparently don’t: Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jack Dorsey. I don’t think they set out to enable massacres to be live-streamed. 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. Of her award-winning work, judge Sir David Bell wrote: She "deserves high praise for the quality of her research and for her determination to shed fierce light on a story which seems by no means over yet. “That’s when the audience came onside,” an attendee told me. The Observer journalist was invited to give a talk in a session tagged Truth. She worked for a year with whistleblower Christopher Wylie to publish her investigation into Cambridge Analytica, which she shared with the New York Times. Carole Cadwalladr is a journalist for the Guardian and Observer in the United Kingdom. The event: TEDSummit 2019, Session 1: Weaving Community, hosted by Bruno […], With TEDSummit 2019 just two months away, it’s time to unveil the first group of speakers that will take to the stage in Edinburgh, Scotland, from July 21-25. But I did take the reporting that we have been publishing in the Observer over the past two and a half years, I did condense it into a 15-minute talk, and I did deliver it on the TED main stage directly to the people I described as “the Gods of Silicon Valley: Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jack Dorsey”. 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. 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. If they don’t feel guilt, shame and remorse, if they don’t have a burning desire to make amends, their boards, shareholders, investors, employees and family members need to get them out. What happened next? The investigation resulted in Mark Zuckerberg being called before Congress and Facebook losing more than $100 billion from its share price. That as things stood, I didn’t think it was possible to have free and fair elections ever again. But now it has. 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. 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. That’s when you won them over.”. “You were human. For many, including myself, TED was how they discovered the excitement and possibilities of technology. Tim Worstall - April 22, 2019. “But it’s been the thing that nobody had actually said.”. Twitter. The reporter who broke the Cambridge Analytica–Facebook scandal has taken down the tech giants for undermining democracy. Carole Cadwalladr is an investigative journalist and features writer. That night there was a dinner attended by Chris Anderson and a cadre of senior Facebook executives. The investigative journalist who revealed the Cambridge Analytica scandal has demanded answers from tech giants about political ads. TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages. 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. These are brilliant men. 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. Since 1984, visionaries in technology, science and entertainment have met at the Ted conference, to share their ideas for a happier, healthier world. Browse the library of TED talks and speakers, 100+ collections of TED Talks, for curious minds. They want to take it back and we have to start figuring out how.” At the end of my talk, he invited Zuckerberg or anyone else at Facebook to come and respond. the reporting that we have been publishing in the. I did tell them that they had facilitated multiple crimes in the EU referendum. The brilliance of the TED format, its slick production, deft editing and clever curation, is that it offers an opportunity to bypass the traditional media – the BBC most especially – that has failed or refused to cover this story. Carole Jane Cadwalladr (/ kædˈwɒlədər /; born 1969) is a British author, investigative journalist and features writer. “It’s what we’re all thinking,” one person told me. Guardian and Observer reporter Carole Cadwalladr captivated the crowd yesterday at the TED talks. Spoiler: the fucking wheel remains unturned. Carole Cadwalladr – TED Talk TRANSCRIPT Now it's coming to Oxford. Or understand it. Or massive electoral fraud in a once-in-a-lifetime, knife-edge vote. And they had broke it. And on Monday, I entered it. ", Three months after her landmark talk, Carole Cadwalladr is back at TED. translators. It was only later that I began to realise quite what TED had done: how, in this setting, with this crowd, it had committed the equivalent of inviting the fox into the henhouse. Standing in the wings waiting to go on, I told the stage manager that my heart was racing uncontrollably and in an act of great kindness, she grasped both my hands and made me take breath after breath. We all know it. For five days, I’ve been overwhelmed by support and understanding and encouragement from wellwishers, person after person who tells me they were moved or terrified by my talk, by the danger posed by this technology that has unleashed a potential for destruction that we neither saw coming nor know how to contain. Three months after her landmark talk, Carole Cadwalladr is back at TED. “And these are important conversations we need to have. About Carole Cadwalladr's TED Talk After the Brexit vote, journalist Carole Cadwalladr discovered that misleading ads on Facebook had a massive impact … What factual inaccuracies, we both wondered. 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. Cadwalladr's work has won a Polk Award and the Orwell Prize for political journalism, and she was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting in 2019. Carole Cadwalladr speaking at TED2019 last week. Not least, I discovered, because I named them. f Silicon Valley is the beast, then TED is its belly. Ideas free to stream and download. Not whether they're Donald Trump or Joe Biden, but just on the basic facts. 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. Anderson hadn’t just invited me in, he put me front and centre, in the first session, unavoidable, even – maybe especially – for his sponsors. Her TED talk telling tech billionaires they had broken democracy has become a global viral sensation. “And you say… ‘Our boat hasn’t been built to handle it’ and we’re waiting and you are showing this extraordinary calm and we’re all worried but we’re outside saying, ‘Jack, turn the fucking wheel.’ ”. 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. “Let’s see what they come back with in the morning,” she said. They have created platforms of unimaginable complexity. We can see the iceberg. Journalist Carole Cadwalladr explores how social media platforms like Facebook exerted an unprecedented influence on voters in the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential election. A breach that I was not just there to witness, but that I actively participated in. thank you for being with us. We know it’s coming. All rights reserved. Spoiler: they never did. He showed guts for doing what Zuckerberg and Sandberg would not.But, for many, including me, he might as well not have bothered. Carole Cadwalladr’s age is 51. But in the situation we are in, with the dangers we face, it’s not these kinds of brains. 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”. “There’s always been a strict church and state separation between sponsors and editorial,” he said. The next day, on stage, Anderson interviewed Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter. But they did. Spoiler: they never did. Cadwalladr rose to international prominence in 2018 when she exposed the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. In the theatre, senior executives of Facebook had been “warned” beforehand. Three months after her landmark talk, Carole Cadwalladr is back at TED. 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. 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. And I was the fox. If it was innocent of all charges, why hasn’t Mark Zuckerberg come to Britain and answered parliament’s questions? Carole Cadwalladr at TED Talks In this TED2019 talk, British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK’s super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. ted.com Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK's super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Anderson gave credit to Dorsey for actually showing up. And what you don’t see in the video – deftly edited out – is the awful, heart-stopping moment when I forgot a line, followed by another act of collective kindness, a spontaneous empathic cheer as I composed myself and found my cue. TED.com translations are made possible by volunteer Three months after her landmark talk, Carole Cadwalladr is back at TED.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. Dorsey can see the iceberg but doesn’t seem to feel our terror. That’s the lesson of TED 2019. For more than a year, the Observer writer has been probing a darkness at the heart of Silicon Valley. 6. Three years ago, more than 1,000 members of the TED global community convened in Banff, Canada, for the first-ever TEDSummit. And within minutes of stepping off stage, I was told that its press team had already lodged an official complaint. A major player in that movie and the ongoing story was, and still is, Pulitzer-nominated Carole Cadwalladr, ... Cadwalladr recently made a highly regarded TED Talk… 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. 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. 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. why hasn’t Mark Zuckerberg come to Britain and answered parliament’s questions. Carole Cadwalladr has been banging on for a year now about how Facebook – with useful assists from Twitter and other social media firms – has been gutting our democracy. How hard is it to get rid of Nazis from Twitter, Anderson asked him. Carole Cadwalladr blasts tech titans at TED: Your technology is “a crime scene” Facebook. I did. TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK's super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Learn more about the A safe space that was breached last week. WhatsApp. They needed to go “deep”. But TED is a tough, pressured, hugely stressful gig, even for experienced public speakers, and I’m not that. Because nobody had told me not to. Following is the full text of the presentation talk in Vancouver. 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. By. 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. But Anderson, one of the most thoughtful people in tech, was unruffled. 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. If Silicon Valley is the beast, then TED is its belly. Carole Cadwalladr, the journalist who won the Orwell Prize for her Observer articles about the finances and data sources of the Leave campaign and the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign, faces another chapter in a libel case that some journalists see as pivotal for press freedom. Because it isn’t an exaggeration to say that TED is the holy temple of tech. ‘There is no point in quick fixes,’ he said. She has also uncovered multiple crimes committed during the European referendum and evidence of Russian interference in Brexit. Or as one attendee put it: “You came into their temple,” he said. And so I called them out, in a room that included their peers, mentors, employees, friends and investors. A brand of tech utopianism that, even as the world has darkened, TED has found hard to give up. “I saw his eyes flicker when you said his name,” one person told me. No counter-evidence. TED Talks speak to an audience who desperately need to know what happened but almost certainly don’t: the disenfranchised teenagers and young people who had no vote but who will be affected by this perfect storm of technology and criminality for the rest of their lives. “Who has the information, who has the […], The stage is set for TEDSummit 2019: A Community Beyond Borders! Carole Cadwalladr, who broke the story and appears in the film, looks at the fallout – and finds ‘surveillance capitalism’ out of control Published: 20 Jul 2019 . She speaks during Session 1 of TED2019: Bigger Than Us, on April 15, 2019 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I walked among the tech gods last week. Last modified on Tue 31 Dec 2019 13.44 GMT. She gave a TED Talk in 2019 about Facebook’s role in Brexit and how the social media company is undermining democracy which she presented in front of the group she refers to as the “Gods of Silicon Valley” which include Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Larry Page . What came across most strongly, chillingly, was the complete absence of emotion – any emotion – in Dorsey’s face, expression, demeanour or voice. Orwell would have loved it. 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. 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. During the opening session, speakers and performers explored themes of competition, political engagement and longing — and celebrated the TED communities (representing 84 countries) gathered in Edinburgh, Scotland to forge TED’s next chapter. Carole Cadwalladr’s Ted Talk Delusion About Social Media And Democracy. You’re on a ship, Anderson said, and there’s an iceberg ahead. This article was amended on 26 April 2019 to clarify the nature of a dinner attended by Chris Anderson and Facebook staff. Your Ted talk was extraordinary." The world needs all kinds of brains. Open Translation Project. It’s all I can think about by the end of the week. In the simulcast lounge where conference attendees – who pay between $10,000 and $250,000 a ticket – lounge on soft seating and watch on screens, was Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder. Last week, at a TED talk that became a global viral sensation, she told the tech billionaires they had broken democracy. “And shat on their altar.”. Go deeper into fascinating topics with original video series from TED. 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A bold, impossible-to-miss stroke by its high priest, Chris Anderson, a thoughtful Brit who bought TED when it was in its first incarnation – a secretive Californian conference for the masters of the universe – and made it a multi-million-dollar media organisation. And on Monday, I entered it. 2077. Pinterest. Carol joins us now. Carole Cadwalladr For more than a year, the Observer writer has been probing a darkness at the heart of Silicon Valley. She is a features writer for The Observer and formerly worked at The Daily Telegraph. © TED Conferences, LLC. “As if he was checking if anybody was looking.”. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey at TED2019 in Vancouver last week. There’s a lot of people here who are very upset about what has happened to the internet. We talked about the fracturing state of […]. Dorsey, dressed in a black beanie hat, black hoodie, black jeans and black boots, a monk for the online age, responded, expressionlessly, saying that Nazism was “hard to define”. 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