How to Survive the Broligarchy
A handbook to fight back against technoauthoritarianism
“Our digital rights and our civil rights are one and the same.
If we forgo our digital rights, we relinquish our civil rights.”
Pulitzer-nominated journalist and writer Carole Cadwalladr has been investigating the weaponization of technology for political ends for more than a decade. In 2018, she exposed the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal with the Guardian and New York Times sparking a global outcry that saw Mark Zuckerberg being called before Congress. In June 2024 she coined the concept of a tech ‘broligarchy’ to describe the merger of Silicon Valley with state power.
In the aftermath of Trump’s election win in November 2024, Cadwalladr wrote a column in The Guardian that went viral: How to Survive the Broligarchy, an essential guide to living with and fighting back against technoauthoritarianism. Cadwalladr, who has survived lawsuits and online hate campaigns, knows first hand what’s required in a new age of online witch-hunts and weaponized lawfare.
Cadwalladr explains that the only way we have any chance of hanging on to our civil rights is to fight for our digital rights. Cadwalladr weaves through stories from the world of tech with actionable steps and advice for the reader.
How to Survive the Broligarchy is both a handbook and a manifesto to standing up to big tech and navigating the next stage of technological disruption: an all-out war on truth.