Color of Change’s Arisha Hatch: “Silicon Valley is living a lie”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Color of Change’s Arisha Hatch: “Silicon Valley is living a lie”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:39:13
• Published: 2020-08-28 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Arisha Hatch, head of campaigns at Color of Change, to talk about organising the Facebook ad boycott (5:00), why she chose to focus on the tech industry (8:55), trying to force change (11:40), whether it feels futile (15:00), what comes next in the civil rights campaign v Big Tech (17:20), the political exception on Facebook (21:00), the coming regulatory crackdown (22:30), tech’s tipping point (24:40), Silicon Valley’s grand delusion (27:15), pressuring Airbnb, Twitter and Google (32:00), ensuring a new civil rights executive is brought in at Facebook (33:40), and the dissonance between Silicon Valley’s marketing and the reality (35:00).

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