Carole Cadwalladr

Investigative journalist
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Why you should listen

Carole Cadwalladr’s courageous journalism probes the nexus of politics and Silicon Valley power. 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.

Carole Cadwalladr’s TED talks

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Carole Cadwalladr

Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy

Posted Apr 2019
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Carole Cadwalladr

This is what a digital coup looks like

Posted Apr 2025
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Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson

Can big tech and privacy coexist?

Posted Apr 2025

More news and ideas from Carole Cadwalladr

Live from TED2025

Will democracy survive technology? An urgent TED Talk from Carole Cadwalladr at TED2025

April 8, 2025

“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 — the first published from TED2025: Humanity Reimagined — she details a fast-moving technological coup and the rise of the “broligarchy”: an unprecedentedly powerful class of tech executives […]

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Live from TED2025

5 things we learned at day 1 of TED2025

April 8, 2025

Buckle up: It’s time for TED! In a classically eclectic opening session of TED2025, seven speakers and a performer explore the big issues of the day — from the rise of techno-authoritarianism and the existential threat of superhuman AI to the rebirth of Notre-Dame de Paris and signs of progress from around the world. Also, […]

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Live from TEDSummit 2019

It’s not about privacy — it’s about power: Carole Cadwalladr speaks at TEDSummit 2019

July 23, 2019

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. “Who has the information, who has the […]

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