Jason Arday, Cambridge’s youngest ever Black professor, was found dead weeks after being hounded by over 200 articles calling him a fraud. The story you were told was about plagiarism and DEI. The real story is something far bigger, and it stretches all the way to Silicon Valley.
In this video we trace the network behind the campaign against Jason Arday, the academics, magazines, and organisations that built the case against him, and where the money and influence behind them actually comes from. What starts as one Cambridge scandal opens up into a much wider story about tech billionaires, race science, and a plan to reshape academia itself.
This is a deep dive into names you’ll recognise and plenty you won’t. Follow the thread all the way through and you’ll never see the headlines the same way again.
The Tech Billionaires’ Secret WAR on Universities
In this video we trace the network behind the campaign against Jason Arday, the academics, magazines, and organisations that built the case against him
