“The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words.
They are telling the same lies.
We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time.
And this is just the start.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#trump #putin

“Coups are like concrete.
When they stop moving, they set.
It is already later than we think.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#itsacoup #coup

“This is Putin's playbook.
He allows a business elite to make untold riches
in exchange for absolute loyalty.
Some people are calling this oligarchy,
but it's actually bigger than that.
These are global platforms.
It's broligarchy.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#techbros + #oligarchy = #broligarchy

“There is an alignment of interests
that runs through Silicon Valley
to what is now a coming autocracy.
It's a type of power that the world has never seen before.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#broligarchy

“…the first thing that Elon Musk did
was to send his cyber troops into the US Treasury
to get access to the data.
That is not a coincidence.
It's a hack.
That data is now feeding AIs that are choosing who to sack
and who to replace --
Sorry -- eliminate fraud and waste.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#elonmusk #musk #doge

“It's always the data.
Which is why it's so important
that you start thinking about your private life.
The broligarchy doesn't want you to have one.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#broligarchy #data #privacy

“The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance.
It harvests our data in order to sell us stuff.
We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#siliconvalley #surveillance

“If you want to know what the first great AI apocalypse is,
we're already living it.
It's total information collapse.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#ai #information

“…if you take one thing only away from this talk,
it's politics is technology now.
And that's why everybody in this room, you can't look away.
It's why your CEOs have been taken captive
and are paraded on TV like hostages.
But you, you have a choice.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#politics #technology

“…Trump…calls the press the enemies of the people.
And he probably doesn't even know that he's quoting Stalin.
So what happened to me is a playbook,
and it's now coming for all sorts of other people.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#trump #stalin #press

“…look after facts.
You'll miss them when they've gone.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#facts

“History is our best chance of getting out of this.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#history

“You know, you probably know this phrase,
"Do not obey in advance."
That's Tim Snyder, who's a historian of authoritarianism.
We now are in techno-authoritarianism.
We have to learn how to digitally disobey.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#disobey