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 miniseries, defending democracy from Big Tech, diving deep into

Big Tech seemingly limitless power to influence our lives, and what we can do to rebalance

the scales.

Big Tech makes huge decisions over our lives every day, what we see, how we feel, what

we censor, even what medical decisions we 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 mentioned the burning Kaya Hoga River, a big terrible mess and

Cleveland that eventually, during the 1960s and early 70s, helped galvanize the attention

of most Americans and helped 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, information from my emails,

from Gmail, as well as my personal identity with the record of almost all of the websites

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