Telling big tales on big tech with big data
Ven 11 aprile 2025
15:00 - 15:50
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As one of Big Techâs most prominent critics, Carole Cadwalladr has long understood the importance of collaborating with academics to expose the scale and subterfuge of the very largest online platforms that mislead both users and regulators. From her investigation into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in 2018 to her ongoing scrutiny of the tech âbroligarchyâ, Carole has championed bringing great research into the spotlight. But how are analysts now navigating increasing platform opacity? What role can journalists play in helping the public to understand complex findings? What are the Big Tech stories that journalists should be telling? How can researchers and journalists work together to elicit a response from platforms and regulators? And is the movement to silence academics and journalists really working?
Moderated by Carole Cadwalladr.
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Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.
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Omer Benjakob
Omer Benjakob is an investigative journalist for Haaretz focused on the intersection of national security, geopolitics and technology. He covers disinformation, cyber and surveillance and has participated in a number of international investigations, among them Project Pegasus, and “Team Jorge”/Story Killers, a groundbreaking global undercover investigation into the private market of disinformation market and the digital mercenaries offering election interference as a service. He was the first journalist to reveal the existence of offensive AdInt firms and the sale of a zero-click ad-based spyware to a state client by Israel's Insanet. His investigation into Intellexa's sale of spyware to a militia in Sudan was shortlisted for the EU's European Press Prize for investigative journalism (2023). He is also a researcher and his writing on Wikipedia has been published in Wired UK, the Columbia Journalism Review and MIT Press, as well as academic journals. Born in New York and raised in Tel Aviv, he lives in Jaffa with his wife and teaches in a local college in Israel. He is also an associate research fellow at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (LPI) in Paris, a research institute affiliated with the Université Paris Cité focused on open science.
Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr is a renowned Pulitzer-nominated journalist for The Guardian, feature writer for The Observer, and Cambridge Analytica investigator. She formerly worked at The Daily Telegraph, and was nominated for numerous Press Awards. Cadwalladr was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting in 2019, receiving praise upon her investigation and coverage into Cambridge Analytica and its role in Brexit. Cadwalladr’s sheer dedication in exposing a nexus of corruption that resulted in Mark Zuckerberg being called before Congress, and exposing Cambridge Analytica’s role in mass-harvesting data to influence elections (Brexit and Trump), goes far beyond the question of Remain or Leave. Her investigation also interrogates the role we have been puppeteered to play in a 2017 Britain that took its first step into an undemocratic world. In April 2019, Cadwalladr gave a TED talk, Facebook’s role in Brexit – and the threats to democracy, regarding her the links found between Facebook and the Brexit election. This talk led to worldwide acclaim but it also sparked a three year long lawsuit which was won by Carole in June 2022. This case was one of several brought against her and other leading journalists and they are thought to be motivated by powerful individuals and firms to tie up the press in expensive and time consuming legal defenses (these are called SLAPP suits). Also in 2019, she was featured in the acclaimed Netflix documentary The Great Hack – this Bafta nominated film explored the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, produced and directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer. Cadwalladr has won other awards, including the British Journalism Awards: Technology Journalism Award in December 2017 and The Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2018. She is the author of The Family Tree, published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize. She is currently at work on a new book.