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ANALYSIS – Deciphering the political and ideological role of digital giants. That’s the claim of a Tech geopolitical researcher who publishes a new essay that’s as illuminating as it is destabilizing.
He teaches at Columbia University (New York), Sciences Po and Polytechnique, where his expertise in the politics of Big Tech, from X Corp to Meta, through Neuralink and OpenAI, hits the mark. Asma Mhalla has been following them closely since she left her first job as an investment banking analyst ten years ago. His rare acumen leads him to shine a light on the close ties between governments and these tech giants, and that’s the whole theme of the fascinating investigation he published on February 23, Technopolitics. How technology makes us soldiers (Ed. Seuil).
His ability to clarify complex issues puts him in orbit today, both in the media, where his voice is increasingly circulating (at France Inter last summer), and in the political-economic spheres he consults. Man-made surveillance, mass data collection…, the tech giants have established themselves as leading ideological players. Hence the need…
Source: Le Figaro
