Demystifying Big Tech with Meredith Whittaker

Tech organizer and scholar Meredith Whittaker discusses the negative aspects of social media, worker exploitation, biases, and the economic/social consequences of digital technology. They emphasize the importance of dissent and challenging big tech companies, debunk the myth of platform neutrality, delve into the complexities and risks of AI, address the harmful effects of technology, raise concerns about tech companies gaining too much control during the pandemic, highlight the biases of facial recognition technology, and discuss the need to build worker solidarity.