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It’s not too late to stop Trump and the tech broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now | Carole Cadwalladr | The Guardian

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In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to give the opening speech at technology conference Ted, where she gave her first – life-changing – talk six years ago T o walk into the lion’s den once might be considered foolhardy. To do so again after being mauled by the lion? It’s what … ill-advised? Reckless? Suicidal? Six years ago I gave a talk at Ted, the world’s leading technology and ideas conference. It led to a gruelling lawsuit and a series of consequences that reverberate through my life to this day. And last week I returned. To give another talk that would incorporate some of my experience: a Ted Talk about being sued for giving a Ted Talk, and how the lessons I’d learned from surviving all that were a model for surviving “broligarchy” – a concept I first wrote about in the Observer in July last year: the alignment of Silicon Valley and autocracy, and a kind of power the world has never seen before. The key point I w

‘I tried’: Carole Cadwalladr delivering her Ted Talk in Vancouver, Canada, 7 April 2025. Photograph: Jason Redmond/TED View image in fullscreen ‘I tried’: Carole Cadwalladr delivering her Ted Talk in Vancouver, Canada, 7 April 2025. Photograph: Jason Redmond/TED AI (artificial intelligence) This article is more than 1 year old It’s not too late to stop Trump and the tech broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now This article is more than 1 year old Carole Cadwalladr In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to giv

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