{"id":44982,"date":"2019-05-06T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=44982"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:03:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:03:36","slug":"carole-cadwalladr-on-why-democracy-matters-and-why-we-have-to-save-it-from-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/05\/06\/carole-cadwalladr-on-why-democracy-matters-and-why-we-have-to-save-it-from-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Carole Cadwalladr on why democracy matters, and why we have to save it from Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noted Carole Cadwalladr tweeting yesterday to say that despite the staggering work that she has done to expose the deeply corrupting practices of Facebook and others she had been on the BBC just twice, with Sky offering exactly the same amount of coverage. That is deeply shocking when the likes of\u00a0Isabel Oakeshott are all over our screens, without having any obvious merit at all. So I decided I should share this talk, which is about the very core of her work:<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 854px;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/en\/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noted Carole Cadwalladr tweeting yesterday to say that despite the staggering work that she has done to expose the deeply corrupting practices of Facebook<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/05\/06\/carole-cadwalladr-on-why-democracy-matters-and-why-we-have-to-save-it-from-facebook\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}