Cadwalladr at TED — a dangerous message, not truth to power

Michael Abberton
4 min readApr 22, 2019
The Remain campaign in Cambridge, 2016

Has social media destroyed democracy? Has it removed the possibility of any future, informed democratic vote as Cadwalldr claims?

No, and it is dangerous to make this claim.

I’m not saying that no crimes were committed by the brexit campaigns and others — this has been already proven. But the claims made about the level of influence of…

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Michael Abberton

Tomahawk thrower, writer, trade unionist, Japanese speaker and all around good guy.