US democracy has been hacked
by big business and needs to be reclaimed using the power of the internet to hold politicians to account, according to former US vice-president Al Gore.
Offering a blunt assessment of the extent to which private companies influence decision-making in the US, he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: American politics has fallen into a state of disrepair,
in an interview to mark the publication of his new book, The Future.
Gore added: It can be fixed, but we need to recognise that our democracy has been hacked … It has been taken over … and is being operated for purposes other than those for which it was intended
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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