What Is the Most Important Thing About Technology?

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i hope we don't wait until ta global bretonwoods or declaration of humanisus. You need to now pull up and say, what are the values to drive us? That's the most important thing. As part of the reason i was here. This is it like. You can't just do an incremental this'll be better because we'll make this one small switch in a product. It's not that this is look again at the world to day. You've been gamed. How do you fix it? Cause if you don't fix it, then regulations will come in. And it's starting already, but when we bring in the lawyers and the people inside, i

[This episode originally aired on November 5, 2019] Maria Ressa is arguably one of the bravest journalists working in the Philippines today. As co-founder and CEO of the media site Rappler, she has withstood death threats, multiple arrests and a rising tide of populist fury that she first saw on Facebook, in the form of a strange and jarring personal attack. Through her story, she reveals, play by play, how an aspiring strongman can use social media to spread falsehoods, sow confusion, intimidate critics and subvert democratic institutions. Nonetheless, she argues Silicon Valley can reverse these trends, and fast. First, tech companies must "wake up," she says, to the threats they've unleashed throughout the Global South. Second, they must recognize that social media is intrinsically designed to favor the strongman over the lone dissident and the propagandist over the truth-teller, which is why it has become the central tool in every aspiring dictator's playbook.