#rp26 speaker Carole Cadwalladr: Investigating (and surviving) techno-authoritarianism

Once involved in the reporting on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the investigative journalist reveals at #rp26 how to keep going – and surviving – the age of the broligarchy.

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Since her groundbreaking investigation of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2016, Carole Cadwalladr has relentlessly uncovered the linkages between big tech, power & politics.

In a conversation at re:publica 26, the award-winning investigative journalist will discuss her long journey of reporting on – and holding accountable – big tech and the profound threats it poses to democracy. We will dissect what she coined as "the broligarchy", why what happened in the US has resembled a coup, and what could be coming our way – but most of all, what to do in the face of adversity.

Carole has some examples of where to go from here and countering the narrative of doom: how the female-founded independent media title “The Nerve” can bring hope and joy, how “The Citizens” non-profit uses storytelling to build new alliances against the politics-technology nexus, and how, and why, in the end it is all about community and connection.

Carole Cadwalladr is an investigative journalist. Her courageous journalism probes the nexus of politics and Silicon Valley power. As a longtime feature writer for the UK's Guardian and Observer, she now explores "How to Survive the Broligarchy" in her Substack newsletter. Her reporting has won a Polk Award and the Orwell Prize for political journalism; she was also a Pulitzer finalist for National Reporting in 2019 with the New York Times, investigating Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the misuse of data in the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential election.