Is Big Tech Coming for Democracy?

In the new debugger podcast,

Tech journalist Bob Sullivan joins experts from Duke University and beyond

for a special mini series called defending democracy from Big Tech. It dives deep into Big Tech's seemingly

limitless power to influence our lives and what we can do to rebalance the scales. Big Tech makes huge decisions that influence our lives every day,

what we see, how we feel, what we can say, and even what medical decisions we might make.

But who controls these massive firms who seem so powerful

and rich they're able to act as judge and jury accountable to no one? And what can we do to keep

them in check? Defending democracy from Big Tech is a thought-provoking limited series that we think you're

going to love.

Here's a clip to give you a taste and you can listen to the whole series right now on the

debugger podcast. When we left off, I'd just mention the Burning Cuyahoga River, a big terrible mess in Cleveland

that eventually, during the 1960s and early 70s, helped galvanize the attention of most Americans and help to bring about the

environmental protection agency. Well we have another really big burning mess on

our hands right now. Big tech.

This decision meant that your company would now combine, for example, all of my data on Google, my search history, my location from Google Maps. my

location from Google Maps,

information from my emails from Gmail,

as well as my personal identity

with the record of almost all of the websites I visited. That is absolutely staggering.

Mr. Bezos, did you personally sign off on the plan to raise prices after Amazon

eliminated its competition?

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