Part 2: Technology, Democracy, and Power—Journalism’s Role in a Time of Crisis

Examining Technology’s Implications for Democracy with Marietje Schaake - Pell Center

Air Dates: March 31 – Apri 6, 2025  We’re used to thinking of technology as politically neutral—the zeroes and ones of binary code that operate independently of partisanship.  But Marietje Schaake says that, increasingly, private technology companies are usurping the function of government and thereby posing a real threat to the health of Western democracies.  Schaake is a non-resident Fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and at the Institut…

Part 2: Technology, Democracy, and Power—Journalism’s Role in a Time of Crisis

On Tuesday, March 25th, Tech Policy Press hosted a webinar discussion to talk shop with others on the tech and democracy beat. We gathered seven colleagues from around the world to explore how tech journalists are grappling with the current political moment in the United States and beyond. In this episode, you'll hear the first session of the day, which features Tech Policy Press Associate Editor Ramsha Jahangir in discussion with​ Rina Chandran…