“[Tech] products and the global problems they seek to solve are more often than not based on those in the rooms making the decisions, and we know that the majority of those in the room default to predominately people of the Western world, predominantly male, and mostly white.” — Katherine Maher at the Oxford Union Society, 2018

This week, on the heels of a whistleblower piece published at the Free Press, Katherine Maher, the new head of NPR, is under fire. Journalists and activists like Christopher Rufo have resurfaced her long history of making public, inflammatory statements about her political and ideological enemies, and what’s emerged is a picture of a far-left ideologue who conforms, almost exactly, to the archetype of a social justice warrior: she’s branded former President Trump a “deranged racist sociopath,” called the First Amendment “the number one challenge” in the fight against “disinformation,” and supported censorship to “eliminate” content she deems “racist, misogynist, transphobic” or otherwise discriminatory.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, what has also resurfaced is Maher’s consistent track record of characterizing Silicon Valley as, in one way or another, a net negative for society.