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How Big Tech Is Strangling Your Freedom
How Big Tech Is Strangling Your Freedom
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on stage in India in November 2018. (Prakash Singh/ AFP via Getty Images)
A conversation with entrepreneur and investor David Sacks on protecting civil liberties in the digital public square.
By Bari Weiss
03.29.22 — Culture and Ideas
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David Sacks is a paradox. The entrepreneur and venture capitalist helped lay the foundations of the digital world we now live in: He was one of the members of what's known as the PayPal Mafia, alongside people like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Max Levchin. He’s also been an early investor in some companies you may have heard of: Airbnb, Facebook, Slack, S…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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