Francis Fukuyama is a renowned political scientist and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University. He previously visited Aarhus in 2008, for the very first MatchPoints conference. Professor Mads Rosendahl asked him what kind of power social media sites like Twitter and Facebook have access to in the democratic politics of 2021. And gave him the possibility to ask Anne Applebaum a question, which she will answer in the second episode of this podcast.

In the second episode of the MatchPoints mini-series, Professor Mads Rosendahl talked with the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Anne Applebaum. Did she expect the conflicting claims and confusion that Donald Trump caused after the US election? And does she believe that the EU has any chance of reining in the power of Big Tech companies?

In December 2020, Professor Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, organizer of the conference MatchPoints 2021, spoke with renowned political scientist Francis Fukuyama and award-winning journalist Anne Applebaum about digitalization, Big Tech and democracy in connection with the US election, which at the time was still in a very uncertain state. You can meet the two keynote speakers and many others in Aarhus on May 27–29, as Aarhus University gathers leading researchers, politicians, business leaders and journalists from around the world to discuss democracy in the digital age at this year’s MatchPoints conference.