Carole Cadwalladr
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 7 May
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You're saying that the Joe Biden, who doesn't even know where he is, is actually an incredibly advanced cloned robot? How much ketamine are you on?
Welcome back to The Daily Show. So I want to tell you about my guest tonight. My guest tonight is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes the sub-stacked newsletter, How to Survive the Brologarchy. Please welcome to the program, Carol Cadwallader. Very surreal. It's very surreal. It's very surreal. I want to introduce you to our audience who might be unfamiliar with your work.
Carol was one of the first journalists that broke the Cambridge Analytica data story. This was many years ago. Back when... Nobody was right about it. And give us a little bit of just that back story of what happened when you exposed what this group was and what happened to you.
Nothing changed.
Actually, the one person who was put through the ringer during all of this was you.
You were put on trial for discovering this very true thing, and they really tried to destroy you.
I hate that. Yeah. I'm a Brexiteer, you're a Brexiteer.
What, are you kidding me? I'm in America. We don't care what happens there. No, but it is. So but you were on the cusp of does that story now with Cambridge Analytica sort of siphoning the data from Facebook, weaponizing what would get people agitated and trying to influence those elections? Does that almost seem quaint by today's standards?
Was the change of that, because there is a sense, you think of that sort of in the capitalist sense or the consumerist sense, like if I'll be talking to my wife about a certain something and then the very next thing on Instagram is an advertisement for that very thing. And you think, oh, they've weaponized what we're interested in to get us to buy things.
But this is a very different scenario in that they've weaponized it to defang democratic processes.
But on the plus side... On the plus side. So when you hear about that from Palantir, is that... Are you describing something generally, or are you describing exact... Like, Palantir is getting all of our data. I mean, that was what they announced.
applying ai now to this database and what is the ai's purpose is it to sift through the data to target you for messaging or is it also to prevent you from accessing government programs
And there's no regulation on this, by the way.
Normally, we're quite prompt with this type of activity. I'll go even further. In the big, beautiful bill, there is a segment of that that says, for the next 10 years, they are not allowed to legislate or regulate AI in any way, shape, or form. It is prohibited by an act of Congress if this goes through. What does that do to this?
It gives them a 10-year head start on whatever it is they want to do with it?
You know, great, glorious goals such as... But how does any of this square with their so-called libertarian...
principles it's nonsense if there is a centralized control of data run by an opaque algorithm that nobody understands but them i mean and when they want to make changes grok for like a week no matter what you asked it was be like do you know south african farmers that are white are being killed like they can do whatever they want and is the idea we're supposed to just
trust that it's in our best interest?
And that's... Here's the other thing that really bothers me about it. So... Everything that we're doing to China, the tariffs and everything else, is because they don't play fair. They steal our IP. They steal our... What is AI if not vacuuming up Anything that is proprietary, not just about our work, but of our souls.
Like, it is sucking up everything that we are and using it for whatever they want to do. And what's our recourse to that?
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