Ex-Diplomat Reveals Who Is Quietly Replacing Governments

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What if tech companies had more power over your life than your own government?

Big Tech isn't just business anymore. Silicon Valley now runs its own foreign policy. Over 60 countries have opened diplomatic missions there to negotiate with tech companies as if they were nation-states. AI CEOs sit at the same tables as world leaders. And the revolving doors between government and Big Tech are spinning faster than ever.

This week on The Tea, former diplomat Dr Jennifer Cassidy, Lecturer in Diplomacy and Technology at the University of Oxford, joins us to break down how Big Tech quietly became more powerful than the states meant to govern it — and why almost no one is stopping it.

Also in the show:

⚡ Trump's AI deepfakes: a tool of mass confusion

⚡ Big Tech: a techno-fascist takeover?

⚡ Digital sovereigns: how Big Tech became more powerful than governments

⚡ State embassies in Silicon Valley: the new corporate diplomacy

⚡ Government officials to Big Tech: revolving doors and the old boys' club

⚡ Why regulation keeps falling short

As our guest argues, tech companies wield power that fundamentally compromises our national security and sovereignty. States should force these companies to be transparent. Right now, they're not.

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AUDIO CREDITS

Presenter–Producer: Dr. Myriam François

Guest: Jennifer Cassidy

Senior Producer: Sara Farolfi

Producer: Nadege Bizimungu & Iman Saleh

Assistant Producer: Poppy Jacobs

Researcher: Constance Creswell

Video Editor: Max Bubnov

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