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Onward,Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editor and Publisher, The Nation

Paris Marx is the author of Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires. He hosts the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and writes the Disconnect newsletter.