she gave a third ted talk in september 2017 on how social media and tech companies are not passive actors – "how the same algorithms companies such as facebook, google and amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information", and stating in her ted talk: "we need a digital economy where our data and our attention is not for sale to the highest bidding authoritarian or demagogue." she made the case that the ad-based infrastructure of platforms like facebook and youtube were helping authoritarians.