

#9 Rebels On… Big Tech Narratives
The Rebel Citizens by News Club
S2 · E9
Sep 18, 2025
38:58
Episode notes
This week we’re joined by Manasa Narayanan, a journalist and researcher looking into issues at the intersection of politics and technology, including Big Tech/AI, misinformation, online hate and misogyny, surveillance and data rights. In this episode, we unpack the stories we’re told about Big Tech and AI, and why so many of them are misleading by design.
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00:00 Big Tech Narratives
02:00 Tech complicity in violence
05:54 Palantir is evil
11:07 Mainstream misrepresentation
17:26 AI: an ethical consumer choice
25:35 Technological determinism
27:12 Missing context – check out ...
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