Carole Cadwalladr she/her

Carole Cadwalladr is an investigative journalist and co-founder in 2025 of The Nerve. Her courageous journalism probes the nexus of politics and Silicon Valley power. A longtime feature writer for the UK's Guardian and Observer, she now explores "How to Survive the Broligarchy" in her Substack newsletter. Her reporting has won a Polk Award and the Orwell Prize for political journalism; she was also a Pulitzer finalist for National Reporting in 2019 with the New York Times, investigating Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the misuse of data in the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential election. She is also the co-founder of the Citizens - a not for profit focused on the Big Tech fight back.