How Cloud Giants Wield Their Power Against Us All

As Big Tech’s power continues to grow, it's more important than ever to understand how companies use their control over cloud infrastructure and services to shape more than just the digital world. Cecilia Rikap joins Paris Marx to discuss how these networks of corporate power operate, including how they are systematically used to influence global politics, the economy, and how society views the world.

Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and the author of The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud.

• You can now pre-order Paris’s new book Hyperscale.
• Cecilia and Paris worked on a white paper offering a roadmap to reclaiming digital sovereignty.

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