Silicon Valley's political aspirations in the age of Trump.

City Lights Bookshop in San Francisco keeps on proving to be still a magic "literary meeting-place since 1953"—as written by its co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti—having hosted one of the most inspirational debate I have attended in decades between Europe and the US.

Since the 2016 election, the tech industry has been flexing its political muscle. How is it adapting to the new landscape? How is it interacting with the new Administration—and how is the new Administration using tech's tools to pursue its agenda?

On the occasion of LITQUAKE2017, LOGIC—a new magazine about technology—hosted at City Lights a panel on "Silicon Valley's political aspirations in the age of Trump."

Ben Tarnoff (LOGIC) discussing with Nellie Bowles (tech and internet culture for The New York Times); Lee Fang (investigative reporter at The Intercept); Kim-Mai Cutler (partner at Initialized Capital and a contributor to TechCrunch); Caroline O'Donovan (technology and labor reporter for BuzzFeed); and Julia Carrie Wong (technology reporter for The Guardian).

Topics ranging from Zuckerberg's semi-presidential tour to the role of data analysis in "vetting" and deportations to social media, hate speech, and fake-news running all over Facebook, as confirmed today by Sheryl Sandberg too.