Discussing democracy in the digital age

Spurring those important nonpartisan, transatlantic conversations on tech issues is why CDT, the R Street Institute, and the Delegation of the European Union to the US are hosting the Tech Summer Series.

https://youtu.be/0xlLG7-nnss

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