It's not too late to stop Trump and the Silicon Valley broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now Carole Cadwalladr

To walk into the lion's den once might be considered foolhardy. To do so again after being mauled by the lion? Six years ago I gave a talk at Ted, the world's leading technology and ideas conference. It led to a gruelling lawsuit and a series of consequences that reverberate through my life to this day. And last week I returned. To give another talk that would incorporate some of my experience: a Ted Talk about being sued for giving a Ted Talk, and how the lessons I'd learned from surviving all that were a model for surviving "broligarchy" – a concept I first wrote about in the Observer in July last year: the alignment of Silicon Valley and autocracy, and a kind of power the world has never seen before.