Julia Angwin is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Markup. Founded in 2019, the nonprofit newsroom has pioneered open-source data journalism to hold Big Tech to account and assess its impact on society. A winner (and two-time finalist) of the Pulitzer Prize, Julia previously held senior positions at ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal, and is author of the best-selling book \u2018Dragnet Nation,\u2019 a searing expos\xe9 of America\u2019s \u201csurveillance economy.\u201d In this in-depth interview, Julia shares the reasons behind their newsroom\u2019s determination to tackle fake news, and give their readers the tools to decipher between truth and propaganda; expresses her concern that social giants\u2019 decisions are taken behind a \u201cveil of secrecy\u201d and The Markup\u2019s mission to \u201cstem the power grab from these largely unregulated platforms;\u201d and describes how witnessing the recent riots at the US Capitol has redoubled her passion, determination and commitment to journalism itself... as \u201cnecessary for democracy.\u201d