Carole Cadwalladr
Pulitzer Prize Finalist | Exposing the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Scandal
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Carole Cadwalladr is an award-nominated investigative journalist who redefined digital privacy reporting through her groundbreaking exposé of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal. As a features writer for The Observer and former correspondent at The Daily Telegraph, she was a 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting, bringing critical international attention to tech industry data misuse. Cadwalladr's impactful journalism holds technology platforms accountable, empowering audiences to understand the implications of emerging digital power dynamics.
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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. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters -- and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election -- Cadwalladr calls out the "gods of Silicon Valley" for being on the wrong side of history and asks: Are free and fair elections a thing of the past?
Carole Cadwalladr at Hay Festival 2024
Carole Cadwalladr at Hay Festival 2019
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like
Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist?
| Event | Year | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Hay Festival×2 | 2024, 2019 | |
| TED2019 | 2019 | 🇨🇦Vancouver, Canada |
| TED |
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