What "The Daily Show" 69-th episode about
Jon Stewart tracks Elon Musk's White House crash, from the high of being Trump's "first buddy" to the low of his black-eyed DOGE send-off. Now that the 100-day honeymoon is over, Jon also checks in on Trump's other struggling cabinet members, like the FBI's burned-out deputy director, Dan Bongino. "I think what is happening in America is they are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state". Carole Cadwalladr, the award-winning journalist behind the Substack newsletter "How to Survive the Broligarchy", talks to Jon Stewart about how the U.S. government ignored the huge wake-up call that was the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook data breach scandal - a story Cadwalladr broke and which resulted in no legislative protections for citizens' private data. She warns about the unregulated dangers that data-mining and AI pose to individual privacy and freedom, and what people and institutions can do to push back on big tech's authoritarian agenda.
Episode number: 69
Episode name: "June 2, 2025 - Carole Cadwalladr Summary"
Episode release date: 3 june 2025 at 03:00
Status: aired