From Carole Cadwalladr as she uses TED to try to hold Sil...

From Carole Cadwalladr as she uses TED to try to hold Silicon Valley to account���to get the social media companies to thin of themselves as information utilities rather than misinformation utilities: Carole Cadwalladr: My TED Talk: HJow I Took on the Tech Titans in Their Lair: "The world needs all kinds of brains. But in the situation we are in... not these.... 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.... I don���t think they set out to enable massacres to be live-streamed. Or massive electoral fraud in a once-in-a-lifetime, knife-edge vote. But they did. 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. We can see the iceberg. We know it���s coming. That���s the lesson of TED 2019. We all know it. There are only five people in the room who apparently don���t...

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