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- [Why September 12th Matters](https://sustainablemedia.center/why-september-12th-matters/) - September 12 is a very special day. Every year, reliably, something big happens on that day. This year will be no different. The women’s final of the U.S. Open will be played that afternoon. New York Fashion Week will be in full swing. The Golden Lion will be awarded at the Venice Film Festival. Hollywood will
- [Australia’s Parliament Has an AI Hallucination Problem. So Do We.](https://sustainablemedia.center/australias-parliament-has-an-ai-hallucination-problem-so-do-we/) - I know something about AI hallucinations. I know how convincing they can look, how easily an invented citation can pass as real, and how much damage can be done before anyone discovers the truth. That is why a new investigation by Guardian Australia got my attention. The Guardian found that Australia’s parliamentary inquiry system is being
- [Yuval Harari Pulls The AI Fire Alarm](https://sustainablemedia.center/yuval-harari-pulls-the-ai-fire-alarm/) - When I wrote about Alex Garland’s movie “Ex Machina” for Forbes back in 2015, I drafted a post with a wry smile. “If you think of a night at the movies as a chance for escapist fantasy, then you may want to think twice before screening ‘Ex Machina.’” When I read Yuval Noah Harari’s “Nexus”
- [Claude Vs. Pangram: The Watermark Wars Are On!](https://sustainablemedia.center/claude-vs-pangram-the-watermark-wars-are-on/) - There has been a growing tug-of-war between publishers and authors over AI. Until recently, I thought we were slowly beginning to figure out some reasonable ground rules. If you ask an AI to write your book and put your name on it, that’s one thing. If you write the book and use AI to check spelling
- [Bad Robots!](https://sustainablemedia.center/bad-robots/) - I’ve been thinking a lot about robots lately, but not the ones that assemble cars or wander around warehouses. I’m thinking about the robots that call, email and text me every day, each one pretending there’s a person on the other end. Every morning, I receive emails from various so-called people who claim to represent a
- [Larry Lessig Says There’s A Gash In The Hull Of America](https://sustainablemedia.center/larry-lessig-says-theres-a-gash-in-the-hull-of-america/) - Lawyer, activist, and friend of mine Larry Lessig was on stage at the P&T Knitwear Bookstore a few weeks ago. Talking about the corrosive nature of money in politics, he used a metaphor about the Titanic. “The captain of the Titanic, he hits the iceberg, looks out on the deck, and there’s a whole bunch of
- [Running list of AI Hallucinations](https://sustainablemedia.center/running-list-of-ai-hallucinations/) - Democracy Now: Naomi Klein Hallucination During Thursday’s Democracy Now! segment about the risks of artificial intelligence, we shared a quote from author Naomi Klein that we later discovered was AI-generated. “These companies are creating digital doppelgangers of us, trying to monetize our identities,” says Klein. “One wonders how we’re ever going to get out of
- [My Dog Duke Is Better At Conversation Than AI](https://sustainablemedia.center/my-dog-duke-is-better-at-conversation-than-ai/) - I realized recently that I’m talking to more creatures, devices, AI, and machines in my life every day. It didn’t used to be this way. Back when I first thought about the dog days of summer, I was a filmmaker and television producer. And the dog days of summer were, to be honest, a great subject.
- [Is Mitch McConnell Schrodinger’s Senator?](https://sustainablemedia.center/is-mitch-mcconnell-schrodingers-senator/) - For the past month, a strange question has been bouncing around the internet: Is Mitch McConnell dead? Not politically dead. Actually dead. McConnell went into the hospital, disappeared from public view, and the rumors started. Then came a series of oddly specific assurances from people who said they had spoken with him. Twenty minutes with Mitch.
- [Lindsey Graham Called Out Social Media Harms.](https://sustainablemedia.center/lindsey-graham-called-out-social-media-harms/) - I was in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room on January 31, 2024, when the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord faced hours of questioning about the harms their platforms have caused to children. At one point, Senator Lindsey Graham looked directly at the executives and said: “You have blood on your hands. You
- [A Beach Read With An AI Protagonist](https://sustainablemedia.center/a-beach-read-with-an-ai-protagonist/) - So it’s summer and the world has slowed down, and I decided it was time to actually crack open a genuine beach read. Now, we’ve all experienced beach reads. They’re kind of fun, topical, quirky books, fiction mostly, that give you a chance to have your brain shut off and relax a little bit. I’m not so
- [Counterfeit People Are Already In Your Inbox](https://sustainablemedia.center/counterfeit-people-are-already-in-your-inbox/) - In just the past six months, my inbox has changed. Each morning I wake to a series of pleasant emails from Joe, Sally, or Fred, each of them “checking in” or “following up.” They know my name, the work I do, something about the projects I’m involved in, and how the service they’re offering could
- [Fencing in Freedom](https://sustainablemedia.center/fencing-in-freedom/) - I couldn’t stop thinking about one image from this year’s Fourth of July. Not the fireworks. The fences. For the first time, America’s birthday on the National Mall was framed by miles of ominous black anti-climb fencing. Not the waist-high barricades we’ve come to expect at parades. Eight-foot steel walls. The kind of fencing Americans associate
- [The KIDS Act Isn’t Child Safety, But A Political Escape Hatch For Big Tech](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-kids-act-isnt-child-safety-but-a-political-escape-hatch-for-big-tech/) - It’s summer. Families are busy, hopefully taking time off. Mark Zuckerberg is counting on that. Continue reading on Medium »
- [Why Hallucinations Are a Business Model, Not a Bug.](https://sustainablemedia.center/why-hallucinations-are-a-business-model-not-a-bug/) - The core argument is that hallucinations are no longer best understood as isolated technical failures. They are an economic tradeoff. The leading AI companies know their models sometimes fabricate facts, citations, legal cases, scientific papers, and quotations. Yet they continue releasing increasingly capable systems because reducing hallucinations to near zero would likely make those systems
- [What Is Art In The AI Era?](https://sustainablemedia.center/what-is-art-in-the-ai-era/) - Many years ago, I went to the Whitney with my younger son. It was the Whitney Biennial, and it was an exhibit of the current state of… Continue reading on Medium »
- [Spielberg Is Romantic, Parsons Is Brave: Film’s Next Generation Arrives](https://sustainablemedia.center/spielberg-is-romantic-parsons-is-brave-films-next-generation-arrives/) - I’ve been in the film industry a long time, and I’m one of the founding trustees of Producers Guild East. I make a real effort to see at least some of the films that matter each year in theaters. So last week I ventured out not once, but twice — first to the super-buzzy and extraordinary Gen
- [Wikipedia Vs. Google Search: Game On!](https://sustainablemedia.center/wikipedia-vs-google-search-game-on/) - Two of the internet’s core institutions made decisions about AI this spring. And interestingly, they went in totally opposite directions… Continue reading on Medium »
- [I Was a Teenage Intern at 60 Minutes](https://sustainablemedia.center/i-was-a-teenage-intern-at-60-minutes/) - A long time ago, when I was graduating high school, I convinced the vice principal of my school in Maine that I shouldn’t have to spend my… Continue reading on Medium »
- [When Hallucinations Come For Medical Research](https://sustainablemedia.center/when-hallucinations-come-for-medical-research/) - When people find they’ve used a fact or quote that AI hallucinated, the rational question is, shouldn’t they have been more careful? More… Continue reading on Medium »
- [Pub Week, The Inside Story](https://sustainablemedia.center/pub-week-the-inside-story/) - Book publishing, it turns out, is a lot like democracy. Continue reading on Medium »
- [When AI Meets ABBA, The Future Of Truth May Be Synthetic Pop](https://sustainablemedia.center/when-ai-meets-abba-the-future-of-truth-may-be-synthetic-pop/) - There may be no better example of the strange new collision between nostalgia, technology, and synthetic reality than ABBA’s AI show. Continue reading on Medium »
- [Sam Altman’s Warning: AI Is Starting To Replace Reality](https://sustainablemedia.center/sam-altmans-warning-ai-is-starting-to-replace-reality/) - We’ve spent the last decade arguing about misinformation. Platforms built moderation systems. Brands worried about adjacency. Policymakers… Continue reading on Medium »
- [Anil Seth: Don’t Sell Your Mind To The Machine](https://sustainablemedia.center/anil-seth-dont-sell-your-mind-to-the-machine/) - Anil Seth is one of the world’s leading neuroscientists studying consciousness and has spent three decades working on one of the hardest… Continue reading on Medium »
- [Steven Rosenbaum: From the Father of UGC to The Future of Truth](https://sustainablemedia.center/steven-rosenbaum-from-the-father-of-ugc-to-the-future-of-truth/) - All right, let’s just jump right in. You know that feeling you get online these days? Kind of like you’re in a funhouse mirror where… Continue reading on Medium »
- [TED And Truth](https://sustainablemedia.center/ted-and-truth/) - At TED in Vancouver, I found myself asking a question that, not that long ago, would have felt philosophical, maybe even abstract. Now it… Continue reading on Medium »
- [Why targeting a “Civilization” has a Gen Z deeply concerned](https://sustainablemedia.center/why-targeting-a-civilization-has-a-gen-z-deeply-concerned/) - When Donald Trump warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” it didn’t sound like policy. It sounded like extinction. That word, civilization, is doing all the work. It’s not accidental. Trump could have said government, regime, military. He didn’t. He chose a word that collapses everything into one target. People. Culture. History. Identity. One
- [How Parents Won: The Case That Changed Social Media Liability](https://sustainablemedia.center/how-parents-won-the-case-that-changed-social-media-liability/) - Three years ago, this work began as a conversation, not a case. A group of people, some connected and some meeting for the first time… Continue reading on Medium »
- [Section 230 Is Dead](https://sustainablemedia.center/section-230-is-dead/) - For nearly three decades, Silicon Valley has relied on a simple legal defense when harm shows up on its platforms: “We didn’t create the content.” That argument, grounded in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, has been one of the most effective liability shields in modern corporate history. It allowed platforms to scale at
- [At SXSW, The Real Headliner Was A Crisis Of Truth](https://sustainablemedia.center/at-sxsw-the-real-headliner-was-a-crisis-of-truth/) - At SXSW last week, in a city fueled by music, BBQ, and parties, there was a different energy in the room. Continue reading on Medium »
- [The War On Reality Has Begun](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-war-on-reality-has-begun/) - Maria Ressa does not issue warnings lightly. Continue reading on Medium »
- [War Isn’t Real](https://sustainablemedia.center/war-isnt-real/) - AI-generated footage, viral misinformation, and the lesson of “Birds Aren’t Real” are reshaping how the world experiences the war around Iran. Right now, if you scroll through social media looking for updates about the war involving Iran, the United States, and Israel, you will see an extraordinary amount of war footage. Missiles streak across night skies. Drone
- [The Next Plane Out?](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-next-plane-out/) - (image created with AI tools) The messages started showing up in my feed late at night. Friends posting from the Gulf. Someone in Dubai. Another in Abu Dhabi. A colleague working on a project in Riyadh. The tone was the same in each post: urgency mixed with disbelief. “Flights are selling out.” “Does anyone know which airlines are
- [CNN, Skydance, And Truth In A Polarized World](https://sustainablemedia.center/cnn-skydance-and-truth-in-a-polarized-world/) - CNN, Skydance, And Truth In A Polarized Worldby Steven Rosenbaum , Featured Contributor, 88 minutes agosource: imgur.comWalk into an airport lounge in Nairobi. The television is on. The red logo is familiar. The anchor is speaking in English about Washington. A lower third scrolls beneath images of Congress, the White House, a court ruling, a foreign policy crisis.
- [The Social Media Business Model Goes On Trial](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-social-media-business-model-goes-on-trial/) - It’s one thing to talk about platform harm in panels, reports, and headlines. It’s another to sit in a courtroom and watch the story of social media’s impact on young people get translated into legal arguments, evidentiary rules, and sworn testimony. This week, Nicki Petrossi, host of the “Scrolling 2 Death” podcast, had one of
- [The Trial Meta Didn’t Want: Why Zuckerberg’s Testimony in Los Angeles Matters](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-trial-meta-didnt-want-why-zuckerbergs-testimony-in-los-angeles-matters/) - For years, the harms of social media have lived in reports, leaks, and grieving families’ stories. Now, some of that evidence is finally being pulled into open court. In Los Angeles, Meta is facing the first of a series of bellwether trials in the social media addiction cases. Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony is not just a headline
- [When Showing Up Really Matters!](https://sustainablemedia.center/when-showing-up-really-matters/) - There is a simple truth we keep relearning in moments like this. Change does not begin with a verdict. It does not begin with a headline. It begins with people choosing to show up. Over these long days in Los Angeles, while testimony unfolds inside the courtroom, people from the Sustainable Media Center community have been
- [I Had A Discussion About Truth With ChatGPT — It Didn’t End Well](https://sustainablemedia.center/i-had-a-discussion-about-truth-with-chatgpt-it-didnt-end-well/) - I’d just finished writing my new book, “The Future of Truth,” when I decided to test my arguments against the very technology I’d spent years analyzing. I sat down with ChatGPT — OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI — and asked a simple question: Does OpenAI know what truth is? What followed was less an interview than an interrogation. And what emerged
- [Gen Z, Tech And Democracy: A Gathering](https://sustainablemedia.center/gen-z-tech-and-democracy-a-gathering/) - On a winter night at P&T Knitwear in NYC, the room was full in the way that tells you something real is about to happen. Not a polite crowd. Not a conference audience waiting to be impressed. A mix of Gen Z organizers, policy folks, creators, technologists, and older allies who showed up because they
- [Silicon Alley’s 30th Birthday Party Bash!](https://sustainablemedia.center/silicon-alleys-30th-birthday-party-bash/) - When the steering committee gathered 1,000+ people to mark 30 years of Silicon Alley, you could feel something in the room that doesn’t show up in tech origin stories anymore. This wasn’t founder nostalgia. It wasn’t a victory lap for people who got rich and cashed out. It was something harder to name: the people who
- [What Maria Ressa Asked Us to See at DLD26](https://sustainablemedia.center/what-maria-ressa-asked-us-to-see-at-dld26/) - Author: Emma Lembke, Director of GenZ Advocacy, The Sustainable Media Center Maria Ressa, on stage at DLD in Munich On January 15, 2026, I sat in the back of a packed conference audience at DLD26 in Munich, awaiting the remarks of the anti-tech titan, Maria Ressa. The conference, populated with representatives of the most powerful technology giants of
- [Why Darren Walker’s Next Chapter Matters](https://sustainablemedia.center/why-darren-walkers-next-chapter-matters/) - Darren Walker Joins Anonymous Content When Darren Walker stepped down from the Ford Foundation after twelve years, he left one of the most powerful jobs in global philanthropy. He oversaw close to a billion dollars in annual grantmaking, influenced how major institutions approached inequality and democracy, and became one of the field’s most recognizable public figures.
- [Are We Building AI’s Future on Rented Ground?](https://sustainablemedia.center/are-we-building-ais-future-on-rented-ground/) - Raffi Krikorian doesn’t pull any punches: “We are renting our intelligence from a handful of companies.” That was Krikorian last week in Munich at DLD (Digital-Life-Design), Europe’s leading innovation conference where tech executives, policymakers, and media leaders gather to debate digital power. And he wasn’t easing into the conversation. Krikorian is not offering hot takes
- [SMC Members at DLD and Davos](https://sustainablemedia.center/smc-members-at-dld-and-davos/) - Two major gatherings are coming up in January: DLD in Munich and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Both bring together leaders who shape how technology, culture, and policy evolve. Members of the Sustainable Media Center community will be involved at both events, representing youth advocacy, research, product leadership, and civic tech. At DLD in Munich DLD
- [When Seeing Is No Longer Believing: The New Politics Of Truth](https://sustainablemedia.center/when-seeing-is-no-longer-believing-the-new-politics-of-truth/) - For decades, video has changed how we understand critical moments in public life. From Rodney King to George Floyd, from dashboard cameras to bystander phones, recorded images have often brought clarity where official accounts were murky or missing. But video on its own does not tell a complete story. It can show the moment when an
- [Maddie Freeman: Founder of NoSo November](https://sustainablemedia.center/maddie-freeman-founder-of-noso-november/) - https://medium.com/media/5ae677d766f56c905be100f29823caf4/href This Substack Live session features Emma Lembke interviewing youth advocate Maddie Freeman about her journey, her nonprofit NoSo November, and the broader movement for healthier digital environments. Maddie explains that her advocacy began after experiencing depression and anxiety tied to early social media use, combined with the loss of several friends to suicide. In
- [When Research Is Treated Like A Crime](https://sustainablemedia.center/when-research-is-treated-like-a-crime/) - Just after midnight on Christmas day, a federal judge in New York blocked the U.S. government from arresting or detaining Imran Ahmed, a leading researcher on online hate and disinformation. That sentence alone should stop us cold. Ahmed is the founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that studies how hate
- [Dear friends,](https://sustainablemedia.center/dear-friends/) - Dear friends, As 2025 wraps, I wanted to pause and share what this year actually looked like at the Sustainable Media Center. Not a highlight reel. A real accounting of the work, the conversations, and the community we’ve been building together. This year, SMC doubled down on a simple idea: conversation is infrastructure. We showed
- [5 Truths From 2025](https://sustainablemedia.center/5-truths-from-2025/) - Every year we pretend the big shifts sneak up on us. They do not. They arrive slowly, argue with us for years, and then finally refuse to be ignored. 2025 was one of those years. Not because something entirely new appeared, but because several long-running arguments ended. The evidence landed, consequences became visible, and denial got harder.
- [Jonathan Haidt + GenZ Convo: Should Phones In Schools be Banned?](https://sustainablemedia.center/jonathan-haidt-genz-convo-should-phones-in-schools-be-banned/) - https://medium.com/media/8e312e086ea8d639e1b9515cc4e506e0/href As we rebroadcast this conversation, it feels worth saying up front why we hosted it in the first place. The Sustainable Media Center did not bring Jonathan Haidt, Zach Rausch, and a room full of Gen Z leaders together to stage a debate or score points in the ongoing culture war over phones. We did
- [Who Should Really Buy CNN?](https://sustainablemedia.center/who-should-really-buy-cnn/) - CNN is back in play, and almost immediately the conversation drifts toward two bad answers. Netflix doesn’t want live news, and CNN comes with daily political heat. Paramount doesn’t solve this, either. Folding CNN into CBS News would just accelerate the slide toward a muddled hybrid that conveniently has Team Trump on speed-dial. That’s not
- [Knowledge: A Gift from SMC](https://sustainablemedia.center/knowledge-a-gift-from-smc/) - What if the biggest threat to your kid isn’t drugs, bullies, or strangers, but an AI that says it loves them? As part of our holiday Best of 2025 series, we’re resurfacing one of the most clear-eyed conversations we’ve hosted this year. Thirty-eight floors above Manhattan, Vaishnavi J., a longtime child safety leader inside Big Tech
- [Australia Just Drew a Line. The United States Can’t Look Away.](https://sustainablemedia.center/australia-just-drew-a-line-the-united-states-cant-look-away/) - Australia did something extraordinary this week: it put children ahead of platforms. Lawmakers there banned social media accounts for anyone under 16, forcing companies to verify age or face fines that actually matter. In a world where governments tend to tinker, delay, and study the issue to death, Australia pulled the emergency brake. You can
- [Sustainable Media Center Announces 2025 Social Media Heroes Awards](https://sustainablemedia.center/sustainable-media-center-announces-2025-social-media-heroes-awards/) - Sustainable Media Center honors 5 leaders: for a safe digital world: the Roberts family, Maria Ressa, Sarah Gardener, Sarah Wynn-Williams, Seán Killingsworth. NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, December 9, 2025 The Sustainable Media Center announced the recipients of the 2025 Social Media Heroes Awards. Now in its second year, the awards honor five leaders whose work
- [GenZ and Journalism with The AP’s David Bauder](https://sustainablemedia.center/genz-and-journalism-with-the-aps-david-bauder/) - https://medium.com/media/21f071f3fbdb91ab1f2cf42448b2e15b/href This Substack Live session, hosted by Emma Lembke with Steven Rosenbaum and Gen Z board member Matthew Stevens, features AP media correspondent David Bauder discussing his article on teens’ distrust of the news. Based on a News Literacy Project survey, he notes that 84 percent of teens used negative words like “biased,” “fake,” or
- [Richard Gingras w/Emma Lembke, SMC Substack Live](https://sustainablemedia.center/richard-gingras-w-emma-lembke-smc-substack-live/) - https://medium.com/media/861c7b48422c893644086c8079cbc51d/href Richard Gingras, a longtime leader in digital media and journalism, sits down with Emma Lembke for an in-depth conversation about the future of the online ecosystem. Gingras draws on decades of experience to explain how today’s digital environment was built and why it’s struggling: the breakdown of institutional trust, the limits of content moderation
- [Aidan Kohn-Murphy On The Rise Of Gen Z Politics](https://sustainablemedia.center/aidan-kohn-murphy-on-the-rise-of-gen-z-politics/) - Aidan Kohn-Murphy and GenZ Politics When you talk to Aidan Kohn-Murphy, you can feel how early he arrived in a space that everyone else is still trying to decode. He’s 21, finishing his degree at Harvard, co-running the campus improv troupe, and navigating a creator economy that has gotten noisier and more cynical since he helped
- [Commentary The Next Digital Crisis Isn’t Misinformation — It’s Substitution](https://sustainablemedia.center/commentary-the-next-digital-crisis-isnt-misinformation-its-substitution/) - The Next Digital Crisis Isn’t Misinformation — It’s Substitution Forget the hype about AI stealing jobs. The real threat is that it’s stealing people. Social media broke the public square by turning conversation into content and truth into traffic. Now AI is coming for the part that was left: the space inside our heads. The new pitch from
- [What I Learned From A 22-Year-Old Who Found 150 Better Social Media Platforms](https://sustainablemedia.center/what-i-learned-from-a-22-year-old-who-found-150-better-social-media-platforms/) - For years, I’ve written about the failures of social media — its corrosive design, its political fallout, its grip on our attention. But this time, the story feels different. A 22-year-old researcher named Kendall Schrohe has done what most of us assumed was impossible: She mapped 150 platforms that don’t exploit users, don’t feed polarization, and don’t
- [Commentary
The White House Rose Garden Renamed: The Rose(nbaum) Garden!](https://sustainablemedia.center/commentarythe-white-house-rose-garden-renamed-the-rosenbaum-garden/) - It seems the White House is for sale. Not the whole thing — just pieces of it. A ballroom here, a staircase there. Maybe a tasteful little plaque that says “Generously Underwritten by the Friends of Democracy, LLC.” It’s all very Trumpian. The man who branded everything from vodka to steaks has apparently decided that the people’s
- [Parents Are Done Being Quiet: Nicki Petrossi Spearheads A Movement](https://sustainablemedia.center/parents-are-done-being-quiet-nicki-petrossi-spearheads-a-movement/) - We were told to monitor screen time, install the apps, and trust the platforms. We did, and our kids got hurt anyway. If you are a parent, you know the feeling. The door closes, the phone lights up, and you are shut out of a world that is shaping your child’s brain, body, and sense
- [How The Dems Lost The Meme Wars](https://sustainablemedia.center/how-the-dems-lost-the-meme-wars/) - When the history of 21st-century politics is written, we’ll have to admit that one side understood the internet, and the other never really did. In the Trump era, politics is less a contest of ideas than a battle of memes. As the New York Times recently reported, the new White House doesn’t just post policy updates;
- [The Coming AI Hardware Wars: Truth At The Interface](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-coming-ai-hardware-wars-truth-at-the-interface/) - When Steve Jobs reached into his pocket on a January morning in 2007 and pulled out the first iPhone, the world tilted. It wasn’t just another gadget. The iPhone reorganized culture. Apps, cameras, maps, messages — all fused into a single, glowing rectangle that redefined what it meant to connect, to consume, to live. Nearly two decades later
- [‘Information Armageddon’: Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa’s Warning](https://sustainablemedia.center/information-armageddon-nobel-laureate-maria-ressas-warning/) - I’ve been attending events at the UN General Assembly for years, but this September felt different. The speeches, the security barricades, the overlapping crises — they were familiar. What stood out was how the conversation about power is shifting. It wasn’t just the talk of wars or climate threats. It was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stark
- [Leo Hindery: From Cable Consolidator To Moral Critic](https://sustainablemedia.center/leo-hindery-from-cable-consolidator-to-moral-critic/) - Leo Hindery’s career is full of milestones — leading TCI through its sale to AT&T, launching the YES Network with George Steinbrenner, racing at Le Mans, shaping Democratic strategy, and now serving as a trustee of the Sustainable Media Center (SMC). But what makes his story resonate today isn’t just what he built. It’s the conscience he
- [Scott Galloway: The Three-Legged Crisis Facing America](https://sustainablemedia.center/scott-galloway-the-three-legged-crisis-facing-america/) - When Governor Spencer Cox of Utah called recent events a “watershed moment in American history,” Scott Galloway agreed — but with a caveat. “Whether it’s a watershed moment or not,” Galloway said, “depends on whether it leads to tangible action.” Galloway, the professor and co-host of the Pivot podcast, is known for cutting through noise with blunt diagnoses.
- [Libraries, Trust, And The Future Of Truth](https://sustainablemedia.center/libraries-trust-and-the-future-of-truth/) - If you find yourself struggling to sort fact from fiction, you’re not alone. So much of today’s media arrives without clear sources. The underlying evidence — the primary sources — can be hard to track down. But there is a home for those sources, and it may be closer than you think. That role came across powerfully in a recent
- [When Social Media Becomes a Wall: The Toufayan Bakery Example](https://sustainablemedia.center/when-social-media-becomes-a-wall-the-toufayan-bakery-example/) - Spend five minutes scrolling through a brand’s social media and you’ll get the idea: shiny product photos, cheerful promotions, hashtags sprinkled like sugar on top. The message is simple — “we’re here, we’re engaged, we care.” But what happens when you actually try to talk back? For the past month, I’ve been testing that with Toufayan Bakery. I’ve
- [The Dog Days of AI Summer](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-dog-days-of-ai-summer/) - The other day, a friend asked if I’d seen that video on TikTok of a dog climbing a high diving board and doing flips into a pool. Of course I had. Who hasn’t? There’s a whole genre now: dogs doing stunts, dogs riding skateboards, dogs playing poker. None of it’s real; all of it’s AI. Still
- [Hot Literati Summer: Book Bingo Beats Brain Rot](https://sustainablemedia.center/hot-literati-summer-book-bingo-beats-brain-rot/) - We were promised a song of the summer. Instead, we got brain rot summer — a handful of TikTok earworms, Coldplaygate chatter, and not much else. The monoculture, already limping, flatlined in 2025. But culture doesn’t vanish when the monoculture dies. It migrates. This year, it migrated to a summer mainstay — Torch & Crown Brewery in Union Square — where the
- [Tariff Terrorism: Trump’s Coffee Tax, And the Price You Pay](https://sustainablemedia.center/tariff-terrorism-trumps-coffee-tax-and-the-price-you-pay/) - It’s early. You duck into your neighborhood Blue Bottle. The light is soft, the music ambient, and the barista already knows your order: a large oat milk latte. It costs $7.50 — a lot. But it’s familiar. It’s your quiet indulgence before the day begins. What you don’t know is that your cup — this small, comforting moment — has just become
- [AI: What Marketers Need to Know About The Tech That’s ‘Grown, Not Built’](https://sustainablemedia.center/ai-what-marketers-need-to-know-about-the-tech-thats-grown-not-built/) - This week’s Substack Live cracked open one of the most disorienting questions in tech today: What happens when artificial intelligence starts knowing things about you it shouldn’t? Emma Lembke, director of Gen Z advocacy at the Sustainable Media Center (SMC), kicked off the conversation by asking a simple but loaded question: “Does this look real?”
- [Is ‘Reality’ About To Become A Premium Service?](https://sustainablemedia.center/is-reality-about-to-become-a-premium-service/) - Most AI events are about tools, hype, or fear. Andus Labs’ “AfterNow” assembly last week was different — six hours designed as “a structured reset” for leaders who want to move beyond the noise toward actual clarity and agency. That’s where Nick Thompson dropped something about reality becoming a business model — an idea I haven’t been able to shake. Thompson
- [Raising Resilient Kids in a Digital World](https://sustainablemedia.center/raising-resilient-kids-in-a-digital-world/) - What if the biggest threat to your kid isn’t drugs, or bullies, or strangers, but an AI that says it loves them? That question hung in the air last week, thirty-eight floors above Manhattan, during a conversation that peeled back the clean marketing promises of “digital childhood” and stared straight into the mess underneath. The event
- [My Uber Saga: When A Hat Is More Than A Hat](https://sustainablemedia.center/my-uber-saga-when-a-hat-is-more-than-a-hat/) - Remember XinXin? The Uber driver who told me his “boss” wouldn’t let him return my hat, so he followed Uber’s instructions and handed it to the NYPD — in Queens? After my story about becoming “Hatless Steve” went viral, the customer service bots disappeared. Instead, I got an email from Freddi Goldstein, Uber’s senior communications manager. She used
- [My Hat’s In An Evidence Locker In Queens — Thanks, Uber](https://sustainablemedia.center/my-hats-in-an-evidence-locker-in-queens-thanks-uber/) - My Hat’s In An Evidence Locker In Queens — Thanks, Uber It’s not a particularly valuable hat. A grey porkpie, worn-in. The kind you forget you’re wearing until you’re not. I left it in the back of an Uber. Simple mistake. It should’ve been a simple fix. Instead, it became a police case file. The driver, XinXin, was kind enough to
- [Wikipedia Vs. Epistemic Insecurity: Why the World’s Most Trusted Website Still Matters](https://sustainablemedia.center/wikipedia-vs-epistemic-insecurity-why-the-worlds-most-trusted-website-still-matters/) - Lisa Seitz-Gruwell at NexusGlobal In an era where facts are questioned and institutions lose the public’s confidence by the day, a quiet digital revolution continues to unfold, one edit at a time. It’s not flashy. There are no billion-dollar valuations or celebrity founders. Just millions of everyday people, quietly volunteering to defend something that used to
- [The Kids Showed Up — and Blew Up the Map](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-kids-showed-up-and-blew-up-the-map/) - The Kids Showed Up — and Blew Up the Map The headlines told the story before the pundits even weighed in. The New York Post called Zohran Mamdani’s win a “political earthquake,” while its front page declared it a “stunning upset.” The New York Times described it as a “shocking NYC mayoral race upset,” emphasizing the magnitude of
- [What Obama Told Us About Truth, Tech, And The Next Generation](https://sustainablemedia.center/what-obama-told-us-about-truth-tech-and-the-next-generation/) - President Barack Obama at the Connecticut Forum Last week, President Barack Obama walked onto the stage at the nonprofit Connecticut Forum and gave one of the clearest, most urgent reflections of his post-presidency. But it wasn’t a speech — it was a conversation that was thoughtful, unscripted, and honest. He spoke with historian Heather Cox Richardson for
- [ChatGPT And Me: When ‘Human Error’ Goes Too Far](https://sustainablemedia.center/chatgpt-and-me-when-human-error-goes-too-far/) - Let me start with this: I use ChatGPT every day. That’s not some kind of AI hype. It’s just the reality of how I work now. Whether I’m writing a post, reworking a project proposal, prepping for a panel, or structuring a meeting doc, ChatGPT is usually open in a tab. I throw questions at
- [The Future Isn’t AI Or Social Media — It’s Both](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-future-isnt-ai-or-social-media-its-both/) - The Future Isn’t AI Or Social Media — It’s Both We’re living in a moment where two forces — social media and artificial intelligence — have merged. Not metaphorically, but mechanically. AI now shapes what we see, who we hear from, what the trends are, and how we feel about it. And yet, most of the public conversation still treats them as
- [Good Night. Good Luck. Good God, Are We There Again?](https://sustainablemedia.center/good-night-good-luck-good-god-are-we-there-again/) - Created with AI Let’s talk about Good Night, and Good Luck. Let’s talk about George Clooney — the actor, the director, the political force. Let’s talk about the black-and-white clarity of that film, shot in smoky shadows and silences, and the sharp moral edges it dared to restore to journalism. But mostly, let’s talk about Edward R. Murrow.
- [DOGE Is Still Running — and No One Is in Charge](https://sustainablemedia.center/doge-is-still-running-and-no-one-is-in-charge/) - DOGE Is Still Running — and No One Is in Charge Let’s stop pretending DOGE was ever just a stunt. When Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in early 2025, it came with a clear mission: cut federal spending, root out inefficiency, and modernize government operations. Elon Musk was handed the reins — not with a Senate confirmation, not
- [Trump. Musk. And the Death of the Public Square.](https://sustainablemedia.center/trump-musk-and-the-death-of-the-public-square/) - Let’s stop pretending this is just drama between two oversized egos. It’s not just about Trump calling Musk a lunatic or Musk firing back with Epstein-coded slime. This week’s meltdown between the former president and the world’s richest man is a symptom of something much bigger — and much more dangerous. These aren’t just two men with
- [An Open Letter To Shari Redstone](https://sustainablemedia.center/an-open-letter-to-shari-redstone/) - Shari, I’m going to ask you to consider doing something bold — something that goes against the grain of short-term investor logic and the lure of a clean exit: Rethink the sale of CBS News as part of the Paramount/Skydance deal. First, let me be clear: I understand the bind you’re in. Paramount Global isn’t just another media
- [Clone the Nose: A Cautionary Tale from the Future That Never Was](https://sustainablemedia.center/clone-the-nose-a-cautionary-tale-from-the-future-that-never-was/) - Back in the 1970s, Woody Allen gave us a scene that felt like science fiction wrapped in satire. In Sleeper, his character wakes up 200… Continue reading on Medium »
- [The Social Media Deal Is Broken. It’s Time to Rewrite It.](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-social-media-deal-is-broken-its-time-to-rewrite-it/) - Social media was never meant to be a democracy killer. But if you watched today’s panel out of Notre Dame — “Social Media’s Social Contract: Rethinking Responsibility in a Fractured Democracy” — you saw something rare in this space: honesty. Not posturing. Not “innovation theater.” Not half-hearted PR from platform reps who say the right things while doing the profitable
- [From Star Wars to the Golden Dome: Why Trump’s Missile Fantasy Won’t Fly](https://sustainablemedia.center/from-star-wars-to-the-golden-dome-why-trumps-missile-fantasy-wont-fly/) - Another SpaceX Rocket Explodes. And We’re Trusting This Team to Build a National Missile Shield? It happened again. For the third time in less than a year, a SpaceX rocket exploded mid-launch, scattering debris over the Gulf and raising a deeper question: How much trust are we putting in spectacle over substance? This latest failure arrives
- [Local News, A National Movement: Inside the Lenfest News Philanthropy Summit](https://sustainablemedia.center/local-news-a-national-movement-inside-the-lenfest-news-philanthropy-summit/) - In a packed Philadelphia auditorium, more than 300 journalists, fundraisers, and civic leaders gathered not to celebrate a breaking scoop or a Pulitzer Prize — but to do something even more radical: fund the future of local news. Hosted by the Lenfest Institute for Journalism and the Press Forward coalition, the first-ever in-person summit dedicated solely to local
- [The Fight Is Just Beginning” — A Night with Emma Lembke at the SMC Dinner](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-fight-is-just-beginning-a-night-with-emma-lembke-at-the-smc-dinner/) - The Fight Is Just Beginning” — A Night with Emma Lembke at the SMC Dinner On a warm evening in New York City, a roomful of change-makers gathered around a long table in a quiet loft just off Broadway. It wasn’t a gala, or a fundraiser, or a political rally. It was something rarer: a dinner table filled
- [Social Media Powers Massive Profits — Who Pays The Price?](https://sustainablemedia.center/social-media-powers-massive-profits-who-pays-the-price/) - Social Media Powers Massive Profits — Who Pays The Price? The screens glowed with young faces — some goofy, some serene, some caught mid-laugh. The time frozen on each lock screen was the time they left this earth. The Lost Screen Memorial, unveiled in New York City on April 24, stood as a poignant tribute to 50 children whose lives were
- [The Substack Power Shift: How Writers Are Taking Back Control](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-substack-power-shift-how-writers-are-taking-back-control/) - It’s Mid-April. Vancouver. I’m sitting in the TED Theatre, and the media world is melting down. Paramount is reportedly considering a $75 million settlement in a $20 billion lawsuit filed by Donald Trump against CBS News’s “60 Minutes,” alleging election interference due to edited interviews with Kamala Harris. The Los Angeles Times laid off more journalists — again. Fourteen
- [Air Force One, Made in Qatar? Why Trump’s Jet Gift Raises Red Flags](https://sustainablemedia.center/air-force-one-made-in-qatar-why-trumps-jet-gift-raises-red-flags/) - There’s no shortage of chaos in presidential politics — but this one’s a first: Donald Trump may fly a new AirForce One aboard a Boeing 747–8 gifted to him by the royal family of Qatar. The story sounds like satire. It’s not. The aircraft in question, once a flying palace for the Emir of Qatar, now sits in San
- [Trump’s War On Global Film: Who Asked For This?](https://sustainablemedia.center/trumps-war-on-global-film-who-asked-for-this/) - Donald Trump’s latest policy punch — a proposed tariff on U.S.-backed film and television productions made outside the country — isn’t just ill-conceived. It’s cynical, performative, and wildly out of step with how modern filmmaking actually works. The pitch is familiar: Slap a tariff on so-called “offshored” film production and bring jobs “back home.” It’s the kind of economic nationalism
- [Jay Penske Takes Control of SXSW: Will Profits, Politics Overtake Festival?](https://sustainablemedia.center/jay-penske-takes-control-of-sxsw-will-profits-politics-overtake-festival/) - In a dramatic — and until now, unreported — shift, Jay Penske has quietly taken full control of SXSW, ending the festival’s founder-led era and setting the stage for a corporate remake of one of Austin’s most iconic cultural institutions. According to sources with direct knowledge, Penske acquired an additional 1% stake in SXSW from a private investor in
- [The Screens Glowed. The Silence Roared.](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-screens-glowed-the-silence-roared/) - The Lost Screen Memorial in New York City. Each 4.5-foot lightbox displayed a child’s lock screen,showing not just their photo, but the of their death On Thursday night in New York City, I stood alongside committed families, youth advocates, legal partners, and changemakers at an outdoor space illuminated by 50 smartphone-shaped lightboxes, each standing 4.5 feet
- [Marketcraft or Mayhem](https://sustainablemedia.center/marketcraft-or-mayhem/) - Chris Hughes, President Trump, and the Fight to Keep the Economy from Crashing Itself Last night, under the marble arches of the New York Public Library, Chris Hughes sat across from Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway and dropped a truth bomb that has been quietly building in the background of American life: the economy is not
- [From Raids To Real Change: Why Games Might Save What Social Media Broke](https://sustainablemedia.center/from-raids-to-real-change-why-games-might-save-what-social-media-broke/) - Something strange happens in video games. People cooperate. They build things — big, complicated things. They lead raids, solve puzzles, defend towns, construct entire worlds, and they do it without likes, followers, or engagement metrics driving the action. If you’ve ever watched a group of teenagers plan a coordinated mission in “Destiny” or build the Eiffel Tower in
- [Being Human in 2035 — The impact of the social, economic, and political forces shaping AI](https://sustainablemedia.center/being-human-in-2035-the-impact-of-the-social-economic-and-political-forces-shaping-ai/) - Being Human in 2035 — The impact of the social, economic, and political forces shaping AI The report Being Human in 2035: How Are We Changing in the Age of AI? was published on April 2, 2025, by the Imagining the Digital Future Center at Elon University. Authored by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, the report presents insights
- [Social Media’s Dangers Confronted At TED 2025](https://sustainablemedia.center/social-medias-dangers-confronted-at-ted-2025/) - cLast week’s Vancouver TED conference delivered a chilling wake-up call through four speakers who, from different vantage points, converged on an unmistakable warning: Our digital ecosystem isn’t just broken — it threatens the foundations of democracy, truth, and human autonomy itself. These speakers didn’t merely diagnose the crisis. They named it, mapped its architecture, and issued an urgent
- [Sam Alman — TED 2025, transcript](https://sustainablemedia.center/sam-alman-ted-2025-transcript/) - Sam Alman — TED 2025, transcript Chris Anderson: Thank you so much for coming. Sam Altman: Thank you. Chris Anderson: Your company has been releasing crazy, insane new models pretty much every other week, it feels like. I’ve been playing with a couple of them. I want to show you what I’ve been playing with. So — this is the image and
- [“Sam Altman’s God Complex: TED’s Chris Anderson Asks Who Gave Him the Keys to Humanity’s Future”](https://sustainablemedia.center/sam-altmans-god-complex-teds-chris-anderson-asks-who-gave-him-the-keys-to-humanitys-future/) - “Sam, given that you’re helping create technology that will reshape the destiny of our entire species, who granted you or anyone, the moral authority to do that? And how are you personally responsible and accountable if you’re wrong?” The question hung in the air at TED like a guillotine blade. Chris Anderson had just dropped the
- [Deja Foxx Tells Audience at TED: Let Youth Build the Future](https://sustainablemedia.center/deja-foxx-tells-audience-at-ted-let-youth-build-the-future/) - In a powerful and deeply personal TED Talk, Gen Z activist Deja Foxx made a compelling case for why young people — particularly young women — should be at the forefront of designing our digital future. As the founder of Gen Z Girl Gang, Foxx shared her journey from a teenage gas station worker to a digital strategist and
- [TED 2025: Carole Cadwalladr’s Alarm on Harvesting Children’s Data and Political Crisis: ‘It’s a…](https://sustainablemedia.center/ted-2025-carole-cadwalladrs-alarm-on-harvesting-childrens-data-and-political-crisis-its-a/) - Carole Cadwalladr Sounds the Alarm At TED. Harvesting Children’s Data and Growing Political Crisis: ‘It’s a Coup’ Carole Cadwalladr, a seasoned journalist and well-known TED speaker, arrived at TED 2025 with a powerful, urgent, timely message — and she didn’t pull any punches. Our Children: The First Casualties “In years to come, allowing your child to be data-harvested from birth
- [Carole Cadwalladr: TED Talk 5/7/25](https://sustainablemedia.center/carole-cadwalladr-ted-talk-5-7-25/) - Carole Cadwalladr TED Talk Transcript Introducer: There’s no time much bigger than this one. Please will you welcome back to this third stage. Carol Cadwal. Carole: I have been feeling a lot of panic and fear about this at all. and not just from the normal reasons for public speaking although that’s there too. But it’s
- [From Cadwalladr to Foxx: TED 2025 Tackles the Human Question in a Digital World](https://sustainablemedia.center/from-cadwalladr-to-foxx-ted-2025-tackles-the-human-question-in-a-digital-world/) - TED has always been about big ideas and unexpected connections. It’s where brilliant minds gather to share visions that might actually move us forward. And this year’s Vancouver gathering promises exactly what we need right now: a space where technology and politics can find common ground rather than battlegrounds. The theme “Reimagining Humanity” couldn’t be
- [“This Is a War to Preserve Our Democracy”: Nobel Economist Stiglitz on Trump’s Tariff](https://sustainablemedia.center/this-is-a-war-to-preserve-our-democracy-nobel-economist-stiglitz-on-trumps-tariff/) - “He does not act in the way a democratic leader acts, and the way that Musk and he have trampled the rule of law is what you expect out of a fascist,” warns Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in a stark assessment of the Trump administration. In a recent CBC Front Burner interview with Jayme
- [Snap, Shame, Repeat: Inside The New Adolescent Reality](https://sustainablemedia.center/snap-shame-repeat-inside-the-new-adolescent-reality/) - I watched “Adolescence” on Netflix and left the screen rattled — not because of the show’s violence, but because of its accuracy. The story follows a 13-year-old boy who murders a female classmate — and yet, it isn’t structured like a crime drama. There’s no question of whodunit. Instead, it asks the harder ones: What makes a child become
- [‘Careless People’: Zuckerberg’s Power Trip, Facebook’s Ugly Teen Targeting](https://sustainablemedia.center/careless-people-zuckerbergs-power-trip-facebooks-ugly-teen-targeting/) - Holy crap, folks. I just finished listening to 14 hours of Sarah Wynn-Williams’ explosive tell-all “Careless People,” and let me tell you — her story is SEARING. Like, jaw-on-the-floor wild. Let’s dive into this dumpster fire, shall we? When Obama Burst Zuck’s Bubble Picture this: It’s late 2016, Trump just shocked the world, and Zuckerberg is doing his global
- [Emotional Targeting and Teens](https://sustainablemedia.center/emotional-targeting-and-teens/) - https://medium.com/media/c5b1a71a129f56a4b81a3c81c81b8bfe/href Here are four of the most powerful and disturbing pull quotes from chapter 44 “Facebook is offering advertisers the opportunity to target 13 to 17 year olds across its platforms, including Instagram, during moments of psychological vulnerability, when they feel worthless, insecure, stressed, defeated, anxious, stupid, useless, and like a failure.” “Facebook does work for
- [Emma Lembke’s SXSW Manifesto Calls For Gen Z Social Media Revolution](https://sustainablemedia.center/emma-lembkes-sxsw-manifesto-calls-for-gen-z-social-media-revolution/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZYvAXRnchY They packed the room, standing room only. A sold-out crowd gathered at the feature session at SXSW, drawn by a voice that refuses to be ignored. Emma Lembke took the stage not just as an activist, not just as a senior at Washington University in St. Louis, but as the conscience of a generation
- [Obama Warns Zuckerberg. But the warning prompts Mark to run for President.](https://sustainablemedia.center/obama-warns-zuckerberg-but-the-warning-prompts-mark-to-run-for-president/) - From “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn Williams The following excerpt comes from Sarah Wynn Williams’ memoir “Careless People,” which chronicles her time working at Facebook. This passage describes events from November 2016, shortly after Donald Trump’s election victory, when Mark Zuckerberg was attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru. During this trip, former
- [Truth In The Age Of Disinformation: A Candid Conversation With Richard Stengel](https://sustainablemedia.center/truth-in-the-age-of-disinformation-a-candid-conversation-with-richard-stengel/) - Here’s the thing about disinformation: It’s winning. That sobering reality set the stage at a New York City event featuring Richard Stengel, former Time magazine editor and Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy. Stengel, whose friendship with Nelson Mandela I can only describe as “mind-bogglingly brilliant,” joined Gen Z journalist Kanika Mehra for an intergenerational
- [These Dangerous Days: The Raw Truth About Social Media And Political Activism](https://sustainablemedia.center/these-dangerous-days-the-raw-truth-about-social-media-and-political-activism/) - Let’s face it — the romantic era of social media organizing is dead. Remember when we thought Twitter would democratize activism and Facebook would be the great equalizer? That dream has crashed into a reality where billionaires control our digital town squares, algorithms bury our messages, and surveillance is constant. That’s why effective organizers are now approaching
- [Alternative Social Media Platforms: A Comprehensive Analysis](https://sustainablemedia.center/alternative-social-media-platforms-a-comprehensive-analysis/) - Table of Contents Decentralized/Federated Platforms Major Alternative Platforms Niche Social Platforms Interest-Based Platforms Additional Notable Platforms 5.1 Alternative Social Networks 5.2 International Platforms Current Trends & Observations Challenges Evaluation Framework Top Five Recommended Platforms 1. Decentralized/Federated Platforms Mastodon: Federated platform with 1.8M monthly active users. Users join specific “servers” with their own rules. No ads, no algorithms.
- [The Fragmentation of News Media: From Fox News to the Podcast Revolution](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-fragmentation-of-news-media-from-fox-news-to-the-podcast-revolution/) - Table of Contents Introduction: The Seeds of Media Fragmentation Traditional Cable News Evolution Digital-First News Operations The Podcast Revolution Social Media News Influencers Alternative Video Platforms Newsletter and Subscription Models News Aggregation and Bias Awareness Impact on Media Consumption Patterns Future Trends and Implications 1. Introduction: The Seeds of Media Fragmentation The modern landscape of fragmented
- [Gen Z Is Exploring New Realities With A Trend Called Shifting](https://sustainablemedia.center/gen-z-is-exploring-new-realities-with-a-trend-called-shifting/) - Gen Z’s experiences on the web are taking them into places that I’ve never experienced. So, I decided to dive deep into a Gen Z phenomenon that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago. They call it “shifting” — and no, we’re not talking about TikTok dance moves or fashion trends. We’re talking about teenagers
- [‘Firewall’ Podcast: The Unexpected Alliance Reshaping Social Media](https://sustainablemedia.center/firewall-podcast-the-unexpected-alliance-reshaping-social-media/) - Bradley Tusk’s podcast “Firewall” often tackles thorny issues at the intersection of technology and society. In this episode, we explored an unlikely alliance that just might reshape the future of social media, featuring 22-year-old activist Emma Lembke. Lembke’s story starts where millions of others do, with a 12-year-old girl downloading Instagram. “At first I thought social
- [A Walk With Steve Jobs](https://sustainablemedia.center/a-walk-with-steve-jobs/) - I’ve been thinking about Steve Jobs a lot lately. He’s been gone for over a decade, but right now — with social media in crisis, with GenZ demanding change — I kept wondering: what would Jobs see in this moment? So, I invited him for a walk. Jobs arrives, characteristic black turtleneck, that intense focus, as we stroll around the pebble
- [Taking A Walk With Steve Jobs](https://sustainablemedia.center/taking-a-walk-with-steve-jobs/) - I’ve been thinking about Steve Jobs a lot lately. I rewatched the documentaries and dug back into Isaacson’s book. None of them quite captured it all, but they helped me frame the conversation I wanted to have with him. He’s been gone for over a decade, but right now, with social media in crisis, with Gen
- [Gen Z Leaders Launch Historic Digital Bill of Rights](https://sustainablemedia.center/gen-z-leaders-launch-historic-digital-bill-of-rights/) - Last week, I witnessed a watershed moment in the fight for digital rights as the young leaders of Design It For Us gathered virtually to unveil their Declaration of Digital Rights. Their message was clear and powerful: “We are a generation that has grown up almost entirely online, and we’ve been addicted, manipulated, and taken
- [HEADLINES FROM THE FUTURE: Networks, Venues, Tour Sponsors Retreat From Diversity In Face of…](https://sustainablemedia.center/headlines-from-the-future-networks-venues-tour-sponsors-retreat-from-diversity-in-face-of/) - HEADLINES FROM THE FUTURE: Networks, Venues, Tour Sponsors Retreat From Diversity In Face of Mounting Pressure NEW YORK , NY— In a move that sent shockwaves through the media industry, NBC News announced today that Lester Holt, the first Black anchor to lead a major network newscast, will “transition to special projects” effective immediately. The statement, laden
- [Air Traffic Control: Understanding America’s Controller Shortage](https://sustainablemedia.center/air-traffic-control-understanding-americas-controller-shortage/) - The United States air traffic control system stands at a critical juncture. With approximately 14,000 to 15,000 controllers currently managing the world’s busiest and most complex airspace, the industry faces an unprecedented wave of retirements coupled with challenging staffing pipelines. This comprehensive analysis examines the current state of air traffic control staffing, the challenges ahead
- [Hillary Clinton and Reid Hoffman Debate AI, Power, and America’s Place in a Global Tech Race](https://sustainablemedia.center/hillary-clinton-and-reid-hoffman-debate-ai-power-and-americas-place-in-a-global-tech-race/) - Hillary Clinton and Reid Hoffman at the 92nd Street Y, NYC At the 92nd Street Y in NYC, Hillary Clinton and Reid Hoffman sat down for a conversation that was supposed to be about AI’s potential — but quickly turned into a discussion about power, risk, and whether the U.S. is keeping up in a race that might
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Davos 2025 At Future House: Leaders Gather To Take On Social Media’s Impact On Gen Z](https://sustainablemedia.center/commentarydavos-2025-at-future-house-leaders-gather-to-take-on-social-medias-impact-on-gen-z/) - I need to tell you about something that just happened in Davos — and no, it’s not what you’re reading about in the mainstream press. While the main congress center was wrestling with AI regulation and climate urgency, I found myself in a parallel universe called Future House, watching something I honestly never thought I’d see: tech
- [No Davos Polar Bears](https://sustainablemedia.center/no-davos-polar-bears/) - No Davos Polar Bears The World Economic Forum 2025 arrives at a critical moment, as artificial intelligence reshapes our world, political tensions simmer, and economic uncertainty looms. The streets of Davos are already packed with the global elite, and despite what AI image generators might suggest, there are absolutely no polar bears roaming around. I bought
- [If Ralph Waldo Emerson Could See Social Media Today](https://sustainablemedia.center/if-ralph-waldo-emerson-could-see-social-media-today/) - If Ralph Waldo Emerson could see today’s social media, he’d have a lot to say — and most of it would be concerning. Truth as a Casualty of Profit First, he’d be alarmed at how truth has been twisted into a tool for profit and division. Emerson saw truth as something universal and sacred, writing in The Over-Soul:
- [A Secret Meeting In Las Vegas](https://sustainablemedia.center/a-secret-meeting-in-las-vegas/) - Outside, the sprawling crowds of CES buzzed with restless energy, their voices rising and falling like waves against the desert skyline. Inside the Bellagio’s penthouse suite, the air was perfumed with the faint scent of aged leather and sandalwood, blending with the sharp tang of a freshly uncorked Bordeaux. This wasn’t a space designed for
- [“More harm, less responsibility.”](https://sustainablemedia.center/more-harm-less-responsibility/) - While I have plenty of strong feelings about Meta’s decision to remove fact-checking, I think that my friend Arturo Béjar, who’s worked at Meta twice, explains it better than I ever could, with a ‘translation’ of what was said, and what it really means. Here’s his explanation, posted on LinkedIN. Published here with permission. ### Arturo
- [5 Bold Predictions For Social Media In 2025](https://sustainablemedia.center/5-bold-predictions-for-social-media-in-2025/) - 1. TikTok will sell. TikTok’s ownership drama will finally reach its climax with a sale to a U.S.-based consortium — likely including some combination of high-profile tech figures like Trump or Musk alongside institutional investors. Despite the Supreme Court’s pending decision and various legislative pressures, the platform’s massive cultural and economic footprint makes a complete ban increasingly
- [SUSTAINABLE MEDIA CENTER ANNOUNCES 2024 SOCIAL MEDIA HEROES AWARDS](https://sustainablemedia.center/sustainable-media-center-announces-2024-social-media-heroes-awards/) - The Sustainable Media Center (SMC) is proud to announce its 2024 Social Media Heroes, honoring a distinguished group of leaders working to protect Gen Z and transform the digital landscape into one that supports well-being and democracy. “These extraordinary individuals are leading the charge against a social media ecosystem that profits from youth harms,” said
- [Building A Digital Future For GenZ: Frances Haugen, Jonathan Haidt Talk About Youth Dangers](https://sustainablemedia.center/building-a-digital-future-for-genz-frances-haugen-jonathan-haidt-talk-about-youth-dangers/) - Social media today stands at a crossroads, much as tobacco did decades ago. We now know the harm it causes, especially to young users, and we have the tools to hold platforms accountable. It’s time to turn the tide and ensure these companies prioritize the well-being of their users over profits. Frances Haugen’s whistleblowing efforts exposed
- [Innovation On Display: CUNY Tech Prep Demo Night Lights Up Lincoln Center](https://sustainablemedia.center/innovation-on-display-cuny-tech-prep-demo-night-lights-up-lincoln-center/) - On a rainy evening, the halls of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts buzzed with excitement as CUNY Tech Prep (CTP) students showcased their innovative projects at the annual Demo Night. The event highlighted not just the technical prowess of CUNY’s brightest minds, but also the transformative impact of one of New
- [Inside The Obama Democracy Forum: A Raw Take On Fixing America’s Divide](https://sustainablemedia.center/inside-the-obama-democracy-forum-a-raw-take-on-fixing-americas-divide/) - I was there at the Obama Democracy Forum in Chicago when the former president laid out his vision for how we might actually start healing our divided democracy. And let me tell you — seeing Obama in person, now fully embracing his gray-haired elder statesman vibe at 63, was something else. He’s still got that same thoughtful
- [Sweeping Social Media Ban Sparks Global Debate On Kids’ Online Safety](https://sustainablemedia.center/sweeping-social-media-ban-sparks-global-debate-on-kids-online-safety/) - Australia has taken a bold step to protect its youngest citizens online, enacting a world-first law that bans social media platforms from allowing users under 16 years old. Passed with overwhelming support in both houses of Parliament, the legislation imposes fines of up to AUD 50 million ($33 million USD) on platforms like TikTok, Facebook
- [From Viral To Vulnerable: Social Media Creators Challenge Social Media’s Future](https://sustainablemedia.center/from-viral-to-vulnerable-social-media-creators-challenge-social-medias-future/) - “If you lean into that negativity, you’re rewarded.” Joseph Gordon-Levitt threw the challenge out to a panel of social media creators. Gordon-Levitt knows something about this — besides his career as an actor, he’s spent years building the platform HitRecord, where collaboration trumps competition. But here he was, getting creators to confess what really drives engagement. Most
- [How Social Media Fuels Polarization](https://sustainablemedia.center/how-social-media-fuels-polarization/) - In the digital age, we find ourselves increasingly divided, not just by our beliefs and values, but by the very technologies designed to connect us. The sophisticated algorithms that power our social media feeds have created what experts describe as information bubbles, fundamentally changing how we consume and process information about the world around us.
- [The Algorithmic Voters: Why Gen Z Finds Truth Nostalgic](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-algorithmic-voters-why-gen-z-finds-truth-nostalgic/) - The story of new media wasn’t supposed to go this way. When the internet promised a democratic revolution in content creation, no one predicted we’d end up with algorithms and billionaire platform owners shaping what billions of young people see. Yet here we are in 2024, when Joe Rogan’s interview with Trump draws nearly 40
- [The Night of the Election I Was Banned on X](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-night-of-the-election-i-was-banned-on-x/) - A Window into the Crisis of Digital Democracy It wasn’t how I planned to spend one of the most significant evenings in our democratic process. Instead of refreshing my feed for election updates, I was staring at a suspension notice on my X account. In all my years on social media — and I mean every platform
- [From Lovefest to Loathing: How Trump’s Affection Could Love You To Death](https://sustainablemedia.center/from-lovefest-to-loathing-how-trumps-affection-could-love-you-to-death/) - Donald Trump took to Mar-a-Lago last Tuesday to extol his recent Madison Square Garden rally, declaring it a “lovefest.” “The love in that room, it was breathtaking… an absolute lovefest, and it was my honor to be involved,” he gushed, as The New York Times recently noted. It’s a striking choice of words, especially given the
- [The Digital Crossroads: How AI is Reshaping News Media Trust and Truth](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-digital-crossroads-how-ai-is-reshaping-news-media-trust-and-truth/) - In a pivotal week for the future of media, Columbia University convened “Saving Journalism 4,” bringing together global media leaders, policymakers, and scholars to tackle pressing questions about journalism’s survival in an age of AI and disinformation. The urgency was palpable: with major elections looming in both France and the United States, the challenge of
- [GenZ and the Future of Media at ZCON](https://sustainablemedia.center/genz-and-the-future-of-media-at-zcon/) - Inside New York’s newly opened glassed-in Refinery — atop the renovated Domino Sugar Factory, an extraordinary convergence took place last week. Fortune 500 executives sat alongside racial justice activists, TikTok stars with millions of followers engaged with nonprofit leaders, and corporate decision-makers listened intently to Gen Z change-makers. This wasn’t your typical industry conference — it was ZCON 2024
- [Tech Clash 2024: Trump vs. Harris and the Battle to Shape America’s Digital Future](https://sustainablemedia.center/tech-clash-2024-trump-vs-harris-and-the-battle-to-shape-americas-digital-future/) - Tech Clash 2024: Trump vs. Harris and the Battle to Shape America’s Digital Future As the 2024 presidential election unfolds, technology policy may not be driving voters to the polls, but its outcomes could profoundly reshape how Americans communicate, work, and interact with the world over the next four years. With rapid developments in AI, data
- [Bradley Tusk On Why the Google/Epic Lawsuit Matters](https://sustainablemedia.center/bradley-tusk-on-why-the-google-epic-lawsuit-matters/) - Bradley Tusk doesn’t hold back when discussing the state of the internet, social media, and the ongoing Google/Epic Games lawsuit. Tusk, a political strategist and founder of venture capital fund Tusk Ventures, calls out the monopolistic practices of Big Tech and explains why the outcome of this case is critical for the future of the
- [Teens Don’t Just Want More Content They Want More Control](https://sustainablemedia.center/teens-dont-just-want-more-content-they-want-more-control/) - Teens Don’t Just Want More Content They Want More Control! Important Insights from the Archewell Foundation’s 2024 Insight Report. In an age where teens live their lives intertwined with technology, the role of social media in shaping young minds is impossible to ignore. And, while social media was initially hailed as a tool for connection, the ongoing
- [Password Hell: Is Gen Z Our Canary In The Digital Coal Mine?](https://sustainablemedia.center/password-hell-is-gen-z-our-canary-in-the-digital-coal-mine/) - Folks, we need to talk about passwords. And data. And the absolute circus that is our digital lives these days. Most importantly, we need to talk about Gen Z because they might just be our canary in this digital coal mine we’ve built for ourselves. Remember when you just had to remember your best friend’s
- [How Sephora And TikTok Are Preying On 13-Year-Olds](https://sustainablemedia.center/how-sephora-and-tiktok-are-preying-on-13-year-olds/) - There’s a troubling trend unfolding right under our noses, one that involves major beauty brands like Sephora, social media platforms like TikTok, and a demographic that’s disturbingly young. What was once an industry focused on adults is now directing its gaze at 13-year-olds. The allure? Makeup, beauty routines, and an unattainable standard of perfection that’s
- [Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Delivers a Dire Warning on Social Media’s Harm to Children and…](https://sustainablemedia.center/prince-harry-the-duke-of-sussex-delivers-a-dire-warning-on-social-medias-harm-to-children-and/) - Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Delivers a Dire Warning on Social Media’s Harm to Children and Society at CGI Standing on stage — in front of a wall of children who’ve died at the hand of social media harms, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, delivered a blistering speech at the Clinton Global Initiative in NYC, that
- [Prince Harry Speaks at CGI](https://sustainablemedia.center/prince-harry-speaks-at-cgi/) - Good morning, everybody. Thank you. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, marking humanity’s first stride into the vast expanse of space. Then in 1961, we witnessed a monumental achievement as Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into space, a feat that captured the imagination of people around the globe.
- [AI’s Promise And Peril: A Conversation With Gary Marcus And Raffi Krikorian](https://sustainablemedia.center/ais-promise-and-peril-a-conversation-with-gary-marcus-and-raffi-krikorian/) - On a recent warm fall evening at P&T Knitwear Bookstore, I had the pleasure of moderating a deep conversation with two brilliant minds: Gary Marcus, AI expert and author of “Taming Silicon Valley,” and Raffi Krikorian, CTO of the Emerson Collective and host of the podcast “Technically Optimistic.” Our discussion spanned the current and future
- [Sustainable Media Center Responds to Instagram’s New Teen Controls: “Too Little, Too Late”](https://sustainablemedia.center/sustainable-media-center-responds-to-instagrams-new-teen-controls-too-little-too-late/) - Advisors and NextGen Leaders Criticize Meta’s Performative Response to Growing Congressional Pressure FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 17th, 2024 New York, NY — As the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) approaches a critical vote in the House of Representatives, Meta has announced new parental controls for Instagram. The Sustainable Media Center (SMC), a leading voice advocating for tech accountability, calls
- [A.G. Sulzberger’s Stark Warning: How Project 2025 Threatens Free Speech](https://sustainablemedia.center/a-g-sulzbergers-stark-warning-how-project-2025-threatens-free-speech/) - In his fiery op-ed for The Washington Post, A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, delivers a stark warning about the future of free speech and independent journalism in the United States. Using the example of Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Sulzberger describes how authoritarian leaders can slowly dismantle press freedom through subtle bureaucratic tools like
- [The Power Of TikTok, Gen Z — And The Changing Political Landscape](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-power-of-tiktok-gen-z-and-the-changing-political-landscape/) - The Power Of TikTok, Gen Z — And The Changing Political Landscape When you ask questions about the state of media and politics, there is a powerful set of concerns that cross generational lines. That’s what happened last week when Kurt Anderson and Kanika Mehra took the stage at “Gen-Z, Politics, and Social Media in America,” a
- [Parents Take On Social Media](https://sustainablemedia.center/parents-take-on-social-media/) - There may be no more powerful group of activists than the parents who lost children due to the harms of social media. Now Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have emerged as a convener of parents, bringing them to support each other and form a voice fighting for social media change. Their group is called simply The
- [‘Gen-Z, Politics, and Social Media in America’](https://sustainablemedia.center/gen-z-politics-and-social-media-in-america/) - with Kurt Andersen and Kanika Mehra NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, July 29, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Produced with the generous support of Craig Newmark Philanthropies and Mintz. Join us for a compelling live event titled “Gen-Z, Politics, and Social Media in America,” featuring the insightful perspectives of renowned author Kurt Andersen and the dynamic young journalist Kanika Mehra. This
- [Is There A Bipartisan Road To Section 230 Reform?](https://sustainablemedia.center/is-there-a-bipartisan-road-to-section-230-reform/) - On Jan. 31, during a pivotal Senate hearing in Washington, Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham made a surprising joint declaration. Despite being opponents on nearly every political issue, they united in their concern over Section 230, the law that grants social media companies immunity from the harms caused by content on their platforms. Both
- [Do More Guns Make Us Safer?](https://sustainablemedia.center/do-more-guns-make-us-safer/) - As we process the shocking news of an attempt on a former president’s life, many of us find ourselves grappling with questions about gun safety and ownership. In times of such uncertainty and fear, it’s natural to wonder: Do more guns actually make us safer? This is a topic with passionate voices on both sides. Those
- [Magic and Code: The Secret Connection](https://sustainablemedia.center/magic-and-code-the-secret-connection/) - Steven Rosenbaum In 1974 I traveled to Boston to attend the annual convention of S.A.M., the Society of American Magicians. I stayed with my Aunt and Uncle,traveled to the convention hotel by Boston MTA Trolly — and was I think the youngest magician there. I was 13 years old. At the time it didn’t seem at all
- [Advisory Board Members (by list)](https://sustainablemedia.center/advisory-board-members-by-list/) - Ahmed, ZiadAibe, SonjaAndersen, KurtAnderson, MellisaAnderson, KyleAngiuli, DuncanAufderheide, PatBacigalupo, TonyBahl, TaraBalaban, SandaBalcone, SachaBarber, DawnBarujel, LunaBehar, AndrewBennett, RobertBerens, BradBerens, WilliamBergthold, LaraBerkowitz, DavidBezos, MarkBoro, CliffBronfin, KenBrown, TedBrown, TobaccoBrown, MerrrillBurfield, EvanCarey, DavidCaruso, BradChalmbers, DavidChen, BingChristopher Johnson, DevonClark, JimClavier, BernadetteClinch, DavidCohen, BrianColborn, HaileyConan, KatrinaConroy, KevinCorin, JaclynCraig, JioreCrowley, DenisCullen, LoriDalgaard, ConnorDeBerry, StephenDeWolf, DanielDyson, EstherEnriquez, JuanErvin, MaiaFenster, AvalonForer, GilFoxx, DejaGalinski, LaraGarfield, BobGeary,
- [The Day I Traded My Car For A Dog: Why Congestion Pricing Matters](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-day-i-traded-my-car-for-a-dog-why-congestion-pricing-matters/) - The year was 2007, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg was large and in charge. With his no-nonsense manner and drive to solve the city’s big problems, Bloomberg took on one of New York’s great challenges: traffic. And he had on his team one of the most impactful transportation commissioners ever, Janette Sadik-Khan, who served as the
- [The Surgeon General’s Warning Crashes Cannes Lions Celebration](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-surgeon-generals-warning-crashes-cannes-lions-celebration/) - As the world’s top advertising minds gather in the sun-drenched south of France for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, raising glasses of rosé to celebrate the latest achievements in advertising, a powerful and urgent message rings out from across the Atlantic. The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent op-ed in The New York Times paints
- [Is Free Too Expensive In A Digital World?](https://sustainablemedia.center/is-free-too-expensive-in-a-digital-world/) - I bought a Western Digital 2TB drive last week. I used it to transfer some files, and it worked fine. But when I tried to move the files to my Mac, there was a conflict. The drive had come formatted MS-DOS Fat32. I know, should have known better. But the files were on there, and
- [The Impact of Social Media on Children: A Crucial Conversation](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-impact-of-social-media-on-children-a-crucial-conversation/) - The Impact of Social Media on Children: A Crucial Conversation At a recent event organized by The Sustainable Media Center, Steven Rosenbaum, its executive director, opened the discussion by highlighting the profound influence social media has on the younger generation. The event was centered around Jonathan Haidt’s latest book, The Anxious Generation, and featured insights
- [Harvard Firebrand Larry Lessig: Tax Facebook To Save Democracy](https://sustainablemedia.center/harvard-firebrand-larry-lessig-tax-facebook-to-save-democracy/) - My friend Larry Lessig is a trailblazing Harvard Law professor and internet policy legend who co-founded Creative Commons, revolutionizing… Continue reading on Medium »
- [The Danger Of AI Search](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-danger-of-ai-search/) - The thing about Google search is that it is, by definition, a “human-in-the-loop” process. If you search for information, Google provides links. Some of them are sponsored, some of them are organic. But at the end of the day, it’s up to the human searcher to decide what to believe and what to reject. ChatGPT offers
- [Sustainable Media Center Announces New Spring 2024 Board of Advisors](https://sustainablemedia.center/sustainable-media-center-announces-new-spring-2024-board-of-advisors/) - The Sustainable Media Center (SMC) is pleased to announce the appointment of fourteen distinguished new members to its Board of Advisors for Spring 2024. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/10/24New York, NY — The Sustainable Media Center (SMC) is pleased to announce the appointment of fourteen distinguished new members to its Board of Advisors for Spring 2024. These esteemed individuals
- [Hollywood Celebs Stand Up To Social Media Dangers](https://sustainablemedia.center/hollywood-celebs-stand-up-to-social-media-dangers/) - Sitting in the third row at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, I was expecting Jeff Daniels to talk about his new Netflix series, “A Man in Full.” And while Daniels did pitch the show, talking with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, he also had something on his mind that I’d never heard him say before: “Social
- [My Amateur Sleuthing Is No Match For AI Spam](https://sustainablemedia.center/my-amateur-sleuthing-is-no-match-for-ai-spam/) - When I received the email from Mr. Martin Kofi Adu, I was — for a moment — overjoyed. I am Mr. Martin Kofi Adu.I write to solicit for your assistance in a business proposal.Can you handle USD$87M for a contract (GNPC) investment fund,(FIXED) deposited? I’ll like to know how you can be trusted to execute this project with me.[sic] Certainly, I
- [Do We Love Our Children?](https://sustainablemedia.center/do-we-love-our-children/) - In front of a packed house in Vancouver, NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway presented a collection of statistics showing how we have built a digital world that is putting our children in danger. “I think Mark Zuckerberg has done more damage to young people in our nation,” said Galloway from the TED2024 Stage. “We are economically
- [SMC at TED 2024](https://sustainablemedia.center/smc-at-ted-2024/) - It was an extraordinary week of conversations, community, and strategic action in Vancouver. The TED 2024 gathering was a sign of the future. A diverse group of technologists, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and mission-driven founders gathered to face complex questions and plan for the future. Sustainable Media Center’s Board of Advisors had a strong showing. At
- [Can Chat GPT Change Your Mind?](https://sustainablemedia.center/can-chat-gpt-change-your-mind/) - If you’ve ever had a ‘conversation’ with GPT-4, you know how easy it is to get drawn into what feels like an organic interaction with a software platform. This doesn’t happen with phone Interactive voice response (IVR) systems. But with AI, that’s all about to change. In a controlled, randomized, and pre-registered study, GPT-4 demonstrated a
- [“Where Are We Now: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.”](https://sustainablemedia.center/where-are-we-now-section-230-of-the-communications-decency-act-of-1996/) - 4/11/24 House Energy and Commerce Committee “Where Are We Now: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.” Chaired by Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) The subcommittee on Communications and Technology invited the following witnesses: Dr. Mary Anne Franks, Professor of Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law, George Washington University Law School (written testimony)- Mary
- [The Digitization Of Childhood Play](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-digitization-of-childhood-play/) - Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” is generating many conversations about youth and social media, and the impact of growing up in a digital world. His work aligns with the mission of other important activists in this field. Lenore Skenazy’s Free-Range Kids has been around since 2008. Fifteen years ago, Skenazy wrote a controversial
- [Design It For Us Applauds Passage of Maryland Kids Code](https://sustainablemedia.center/design-it-for-us-applauds-passage-of-maryland-kids-code/) - April 6, 2024Design It For Us Co-chair Zamaan Qureshi issued the following statement on the unanimous and bipartisan passage of the Maryland Kids Code: “We are grateful to the members of the Maryland General Assembly for standing up to Big Tech and prioritizing the safety of kids and teens. This takes us one step closer
- [The TikTok Doom Loop](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-tiktok-doom-loop/) - Starting with the allegations against TikTok: The U.S. government has an agency named CFIUS, tasked with monitoring foreign entities operating in the U.S. After a year of scrutinizing TikTok, it has reached no definitive conclusions, essentially hitting a deadlock. For Congress to label TikTok as a threat, one would expect solid evidence. To clarify, I
- [Inside Facebook: A Live Event](https://sustainablemedia.center/inside-facebook-a-live-event/) - Who is Jeff Horwitz? In “The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook,” Frances Haugen wrote: “Jeff had become my most consistent friend for the previous nine months. He was my rock. He had believed me when I felt alone at Facebook.
- [Facebook INSIDERS Speak Out: A live Zoom event with fmr Employees](https://sustainablemedia.center/facebook-insiders-speak-out-a-live-zoom-event-with-fmr-employees/) - A public conversation “It was a hundred times worse than any of us expected. There were millions of pedophiles targeting tens of millions of children.”— Former Facebook Engineering Director NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA, March 28, 2024 / EINPresswire.com / -- Live Event: Unveiling the Truth Behind Facebook Date: Wednesday April 3rd, 1pm ET Time: 1pm ET
- [Parents Move Washington On Big Tech](https://sustainablemedia.center/parents-move-washington-on-big-tech/) - Senate hearings are often “kabuki theater,“ as explained by a friend of mine who has been to many of them. But it may just be that yesterday‘s hearings were different. The five-hour hearing, with a single 10-minute break, promised some important changes on the horizon. Changes meant scratch it the core “amplify for profit“ business
- [Blinded By The Ads](https://sustainablemedia.center/blinded-by-the-ads/) - Does advertising make everything worse? One of the mini-blinds in my living room is starting to show age. I Googled something, or maybe Amazon heard me mention blinds. But now there’s an endless stream of ads for blinds. They are all the same. They show me pretty pictures and ask for my email address so
- [The Perilous Path Of Addiction: From Coca-Cola To Social Media](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-perilous-path-of-addiction-from-coca-cola-to-social-media/) - Coca-Cola was invented in 1885 by John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia, who made the original formula in his backyard. Pemberton’s recipe contained cocaine in the form of an extract of the coca leaf, which inspired the “Coca” part of the beverage’s name. When Coca-Cola was invented, cocaine was legal, and people thought it
- [SXSW® 2024 Presents Renowned AI disruptor Gary Marcus and AI Truth Explorer Steven Rosenbaum debate the Future of Truth](https://sustainablemedia.center/sxsw-2024-presents-renowned-ai-disruptor-gary-marcus-and-ai-truth-explorer-steven-rosenbaum-debate-the-future-of-truth/) - March 11th Conversation To Raise Complicated Issues NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, February 26, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As part of SXSW® 2024, a thought-provoking discussion on artificial intelligence [AI] advancements in truth dissemination and perception will take center stage. The session, entitled “AI and the Future of Truth”, will explore the intersection of AI and
- [Business Leaders Join Forces to Push Back on Toxic Teen-focused Internet](https://sustainablemedia.center/business-leaders-join-forces-to-push-back-on-toxic-teen-focused-internet/)
- [US Senator Cory Booker and 15 GenZ Leaders to join online conversation hosted by the Sustainable Media Center](https://sustainablemedia.center/us-senator-cory-booker-and-15-genz-leaders-to-join-online-conversation-hosted-by-the-sustainable-media-center/) - An open dialog about the issues, ideas, and concerns facing GenZ today NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA, September 25, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Cory Booker to Livestream Conversation with GenZ, On Tuesday, May 26th at 10m ET, Senator Cory Booker will join a conversation with GenZ leaders. The conversation stream will premier on YouTube. Free tickets
- [Digital Guru Esther Dyson, in conversation with 10th Grade Teen and Health and Voting Activist Raziya Palmer.](https://sustainablemedia.center/digital-guru-esther-dyson-in-conversation-with-10th-grade-teen-and-health-and-voting-activist-raziya-palmer/)
- [Jellysmack Acquires Network Media in a Deal at the Forefront of the Creator Economy](https://sustainablemedia.center/jellysmack-acquires-network-media-in-a-deal-at-the-forefront-of-the-creator-economy/) - Oaklins DeSilva + Phillips Represents Network Media in the Landmark Sale Jellysmack is the single most valuable multi-platform partner a digital creator can have” — Rick Lax, CEO and Founder, Network MediaNY, NY, UNITED STATES, July 7, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- The investment bank Oaklins DeSilva + Phillips today announced the sale of Network Media LLC, a high-growth innovator
- [John Rose, Aida Murad, and Raziya Palmer join the Sustainable Media Center Board of Advisors](https://sustainablemedia.center/john-rose-aida-murad-and-raziya-palmer-join-the-sustainable-media-center-board-of-advisors/)
- [Troesken, Ongele, Joseph join Sustainable Media Center Board of Advisors](https://sustainablemedia.center/troesken-ongele-joseph-join-sustainable-media-center-board-of-advisors/) - NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, June 13, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- The Sustainable Media Center is pleased to announce that Sofia Ongele, Dylan Troesken, and Duncan Joseph - three remarkable GenZ content creators and activists with a combined TikTok following of more than 9 million follwers - have joined as members of the Sustainable Media Center
- [Brian Stelter, Dennis Crowley, and John Palfrey join Sustainable Media Center Board of Advisors](https://sustainablemedia.center/brian-stelter-dennis-crowley-and-john-palfrey-join-sustainable-media-center-board-of-advisors/) - Three extraordinary leaders in tech, journalism, and philanthropy - have joined as members of the Sustainable Media Center Board of Advisors.NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, June 2, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- The Sustainable Media Center is pleased to announce that Brian Stelter, Dennis Crowley, and John Pavolic - three extraordinary leaders in tech, journalism, and philanthropy - have joined
- [Harry Siegel / Senior Editor, Opinion / Daily Beast](https://sustainablemedia.center/harry-siegel-senior-editor-opinion-daily-beast/) - Harry Siegel / Senior Editor, Opinion / Daily Beast Published Sep. 07, 2021 One of the other people featured in the documentary is the lead exhibition designer, Tom Hennes, the founder and principal of the exhibition firm Thinc Design, who twice left the project and is clearly pained in the film by how things are going but also not
- [SXSW: A Year Of Innovation And Introspection](https://sustainablemedia.center/sxsw-a-year-of-innovation-and-introspection/) - SXSW is always a mix of the serious and a bit of a journey into the unknown. This year, Austin was alive with possibilities and complexities. I spent four days jumping from one conversation to another, and a theme emerged. The opening day of the SXSW Conference was also International Women’s Day. Meghan, the Duchess
- [AI Bull In A Marcus China Shop](https://sustainablemedia.center/ai-bull-in-a-marcus-china-shop/) - “AI doesn’t understand facts, truth, or privacy. It is a reckless bull in a china shop, and we should demand better, Says Gary Marcus. When I invited Marcus, emeritus professor of psychology and neural science at NYU, to join me on stage at SXSW, I knew we were going to create a bit of a
- [Is The Current State Of Media Sustainable?](https://sustainablemedia.center/is-the-current-state-of-media-sustainable-2/) - No matter how you view the world, as a media maker, a marketer, or a citizen, you can’t help but feel that media, in its current incarnation, is doing more damage than it is building a safer, more sustainable society.The gnawing feeling in the pit of our collective stomachs grows more urgent by the day.The
- [Future (.)](https://sustainablemedia.center/future/) - After three amazing years, I’ve stepped down as the Executive Director of the NYC MediaLab. It’s been a great run, and I’ve learned so much from the students, faculty, and industry partners that formed the backbone of this remarkable organization.The MediaLab put more than 10 million dollars into the New York City innovation ecosystem in
- [Carl Sagan And The Dumbing Down Of America](https://sustainablemedia.center/carl-sagan-and-the-dumbing-down-of-america-2/) - Carl Sagan’s remarkable life as an astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author made him uniquely suited to ask complicated questions. At the University of Chicago in the 1950s, the-then 16-year-old Sagan took courses in philosophy, science, and literature. He was among many things, a deep thinker. In his 1995 book “The Demon-Haunted World,”
- [Move Fast And Fix Things](https://sustainablemedia.center/move-fast-and-fix-things-2/) - If you want to know just how quickly things have changed, just ask Julie Scelfo, who’s a media ecologist (one who studies the interactions of communications media, technology, and processes with human feelings and behavior)and a mom. “I have three teen boys, 12, 14, and 17,” said Scelfo. “When my 17-year-old was born, there were
- [Who was Molly Russell](https://sustainablemedia.center/who-was-molly-russell/) - Molly Rose Russell was by all accounts a normal 14-year-old schoolgirl. She had the interests and hobbies of a typical teenager: music from “Hamilton,” the band 5 Seconds of Summer, a lead role in her school play. A “positive, happy, bright young lady who was indeed destined to do good,” explained her father, as reported
- [Twitter Free Speech Vs. Saudi Censorship](https://sustainablemedia.center/twitter-free-speech-vs-saudi-censorship/) - On April 14, Elon Musk was on a stage in Vancouver at a TED talk, asked to define what he believed should be Twitter’s role regarding content. It was early days in the six-month will-he-or-won’t-he own Twitter roller coaster.Musk seemed to be thinking on his feet, trying to answer the one question that is certain
- [Misaligned Incentives Fuel Hate Online](https://sustainablemedia.center/misaligned-incentives-fuel-hate-online/) - Over the past week, I’ve led a series of conversations about the current state of media, and the increasing sense that media platforms are amplifying hate and misinformation. There are lots of theories about what has brought us here, but the one phrase that comes up with the most urgency is the media’s “misaligned incentives.”What
- [What’s Next For News?](https://sustainablemedia.center/whats-next-for-news/) - News, as we know it, is being reinvented every day, in ways large and small. Elon Musk swerves around, claiming one moment he’s empowering “citizen journalism” and that the “best coverage” of the World Cup can be found on Twitter. His thoughtless use of the concept of free speech runs headlong into his personal whims
- [What is Frequency?](https://sustainablemedia.center/what-is-frequency/) - Standing in front of a virtual room of high school students and tech leaders, Braxton Woodham, president of Unfinished Labs, said he sees the current state of social networks as bleak, but fixable. As he explained it, no one person is responsible for the current state of affairs. Quoting Grateful Dead’s roadie Steve Parish, he
- [Sherry Turkle: Empathy, Solitude, Power Of ‘The Boring Bits’](https://sustainablemedia.center/sherry-turkle-empathy-solitude-power-of-the-boring-bits/) - by Steven Rosenbaum, Sustainable Media Center Sherry Turkle is a philosopher who thinks about the nature of being human, at a time when technology is turning our social world upside down.In the academic world, she’s a professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT. Her TED talk, “Connected, but Alone” has been
- [WaPo’s Taylor Lorenz Defends TikTok, Gets Banned From Twitter](https://sustainablemedia.center/wapos-taylor-lorenz-defends-tiktok-gets-banned-from-twitter/) - Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz is a reporter who gets inside the stories she covers. She is controversial and hard-hitting. And even before she ran afoul of Elon Musk’s ever-changing “rules,” she was willing to say things in public that others only said behind closed doors. When Lorenz spoke to a group of teens last
- [Netflix’s Risky Strategy For ‘House Of Cards’](https://sustainablemedia.center/netflixs-risky-strategy-for-house-of-cards/) - The thing about making television programs is, the folks who don’t do it always think it’s easy. After all, Seinfeld was nothing more than an NYC apartment set, some writers, and a few unknown actors. Of course, given the number of failed sitcoms, we know its a bit harder than that. Which is why Netflixs’
- [Why I was wrong about Netflix ‘House of Cards’](https://sustainablemedia.center/why-i-was-wrong-about-netflix-house-of-cards/) - Let me start by saying, I’m used to being called names. It doesn’t hurt my feelings a bit. So, when the comments section lit up last week after what I thought was a relatively innocuous article about Netflix taking a big risk by releasing (dumping) the whole season of HOC out in the market at
- [When AI Lies](https://sustainablemedia.center/when-ai-lies/) - I’ve been arguing with Google’s Bard for two days now, without a hint of success. At first I thought I might have been making a mistake with the prompts, but as it turns out, no amount of adjustment or clarification makes the results any better. I’m researching a paper, and Bard provides what appear to
- [Intergenerational Action: Looking To Drive Change](https://sustainablemedia.center/intergenerational-action-looking-to-drive-change/) - Last week, 30 people sat down for a chef-cooked dinner at a SoHo apartment. The room was full of media leaders, technology activists, and famous TikTok makers — people who usually never meet, and certainly never brainstorm together. Still, an urgent mission brought them together. The host of the evening — venture capitalist and philanthropist
- [My Conversation with ChatGPT](https://sustainablemedia.center/my-conversation-with-chatgpt/) - It began simply enough. I wanted some quotes from Supreme Court Justices about “Truth.” I could have used Google, but decided to use Chat GPT instead. One hour and 87 “Apologies” later I was no closer to finding the quotes I need. But, if you read the transcript below, I did get tons of made
- [New York City Takes On The Social Media Crisis](https://sustainablemedia.center/new-york-city-takes-on-the-social-media-crisis/) - New York was covered in a thick fog of smoke from the fires burning in Canada. It seemed likely that the gathering at the Rockefeller Foundation conference center would be canceled. But the entryway was full of people, masks on — but there. It was an unusual gathering, convened by Eric Adams, New York City
- [Tusk, Gen Z, And Tech](https://sustainablemedia.center/tusk-gen-z-and-tech/) - With his diverse background as a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist, and writer, Bradley Tusk is intensely curious. Today Tusk’s concerns often center on social media — and its impact on young users. “We have this incredibly toxic internet with really perverse incentives,” said Tusk at a recent public discussion on politics, media, and change.To
- [Ricky Lax and the Magic of the Creator Economy](https://sustainablemedia.center/ricky-lax-and-the-magic-of-the-creator-economy/) - When you meet Ricky Lax for the first time, you’ll expect a cape and a top hat. But he’s not that kind of magician. His parents will share that he did have doves, long ago, but a brief foray into the illusionist genre wasn’t for him. Instead, he’s a new kind of casual conjuror, and he’s swapped
- [Should NYC Buy Citi Bike?](https://sustainablemedia.center/should-nyc-buy-citi-bike/) - At a time when New York is about to implement congestion pricing to put pressure on private car use, Citi Bike usage is surging. Citi Bike launched in 2013 with an initial fleet of 6,000 bicycles — and 46,854 rides were taken in the first week. Two months ago, the bike share program logged 867,840
- [AI At The Precipice Of Truth](https://sustainablemedia.center/ai-at-the-precipice-of-truth/) - The New York Times had a headline that can only be described as scary. “What Can You Do When A.I. Lies About You?” asks the Times. The short answer is, essentially nothing. “Sometimes the technology creates and spreads fiction about specific people that threaten their reputations and leaves them with few options for protection or
- [The Men On The Roof: Building Up, Tearing Down](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-men-on-the-roof-building-up-tearing-down/) - In New York, it seems like there’s always a crane and a brand-new, giant building going up. But things are different now. We all know the chit-chat about how work from home is changing the nature of office space. New York magazine has a thoughtful article about commercial real estate titled: “New Glut City: the
- [When Bad Spam Gets Smart](https://sustainablemedia.center/when-bad-spam-gets-smart/) - I get spam — lots of spam: According to the scientists, there’s a healthy substance in your bathroom drawer that slows down the onset of Alzheimer’s by 200%… Your FEDex has been delayed; click to learn about delivery. A bunch of emails from the United Nations, offering to send me money. On Facebook, I get
- [Hardware Holdouts: Why Amazon Is Winning The Hardware Store Wars](https://sustainablemedia.center/hardware-holdouts-why-amazon-is-winning-the-hardware-store-wars/) - A few weeks back, on the hottest day of the summer, my icemaker stopped working. It was certainly not essential. I put a few ice cube trays in the freezer and went back to work. As the days wore on, I realized that I really like my icemaker. It’s a luxury for sure, but it’s
- [GenZ And News: The Future Is Blurry](https://sustainablemedia.center/genz-and-news-the-future-is-blurry/) - Esther Dyson has witnessed the internet grow up from its earliest days. As the curator of the now-legendary conference PC Forum, she was there in 1985, hosting a gathering of people who have become tech luminaries, among them Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg. She has been described by Sir
- [9/11 Stakeholders Join Forces](https://sustainablemedia.center/9-11-stakeholders-join-forces/) - Twenty-two years ago, airplanes were turned into terrible weapons. As New York struggled to rebuild and recover, it was decided that a Museum and Memorial would be built to honor the fallen and protect the history. Today a group of more than 100 scholars, historians, interfaith leaders, and family members have aligned to form The
- [Is This The Worst Job In America?](https://sustainablemedia.center/is-this-the-worst-job-in-america/) - Note: see update at bottom of post. My journey began innocently enough, I was on vacation and discovered I was running out of a prescription allergy medicine. There was a local CVS nearby, so I called to see if they could find my prescription in their system. I knew that CVS had 9,000 retail locations,
- [I’m Going On A Media Diet](https://sustainablemedia.center/im-going-on-a-media-diet/) - I’m a media consumer — and have been for a very long time. I’ve been consuming television, news, movies, and music, paying what I always thought was a pretty generous spend. I’m hardly a media pincher. And yet, as more and more media platforms have their hand out, I find myself pulling away. My math
- [Who’s Funding Hate?](https://sustainablemedia.center/whos-funding-hate/) - Who’s Funding Hate? by Steven Rosenbaum , Featured Contributor, 2 hours agosource: imgur.com It’s not that complicated. Advertisers have a clear goal: They want to sell stuff — cable channels, newspaper subscriptions, sports tickets. You know, stuff. What they don’t want to do is alienate customers or potential customers. So historically, they have steered clear
- [Gen Z Says: Design It For Us!](https://sustainablemedia.center/gen-z-says-design-it-for-us/) - I was flying home from a business trip, and next to me was young mom and her small child strapped in a car seat. The toddler turned to his mom, and as the plane taxied away from the gate he said, “Phone.” And then, more urgently, “Phone.” His mom put big headphones on him, and
- [Meta Lawsuit Shines Bright Light On Painful Profits](https://sustainablemedia.center/meta-lawsuit-shines-bright-light-on-painful-profits/) - Depending on how you look at it, Oct. 25 was either a very good or a very bad day for Meta and its two primary products, Instagram and Facebook.First, the bad part.On Oct. 24, 42 states and the District of Columbia decided to take legal action against Meta. They’re basically saying that Meta is causing
- [Barack Obama Calls For A New Kind Of Media](https://sustainablemedia.center/barack-obama-calls-for-a-new-kind-of-media/) - Former President Barack Obama is thinking about media’s impact on society and democracy. Obama spoke at the annual Democracy Forum in Chicago sponsored by the Obama Foundation. The room was full of young activists and organizers. And, with the backdrop of the war between Israel and Hamas, he was thoughtful about the growing strife between
- [Social Media Harms: Victims’ Voices Matter](https://sustainablemedia.center/social-media-harms-victims-voices-matter/) - Emma Lembke has done more in her young life than most of us have done in a lifetime, and she’s hardly done. But for her, testifying in Congress about the impact that social media has had on her remains a high point. “When I sat there, I really felt as though it was the most
- [We Have Questions For Mark Zuckerberg](https://sustainablemedia.center/we-have-questions-for-mark-zuckerberg/) - Sometimes the best conversations you can have are with people who aren’t in the room. Over the past few weeks, no one has been the focus of more of my conversations than Mark Zuckerberg. So when I sat down last week with Frances Haugen and Zamaan Qureshi, Zuckerberg was high on the list of topics.
- [What Is News On TikTok?](https://sustainablemedia.center/what-is-news-on-tiktok/) - According to a recent Pew Research Center study, more Americans, especially younger adults, are getting their news on TikTok. The share of U.S. adults who regularly do so increased from 3% in 2020 to 14% in 2023. And for those who are regular TikTok users, 43% say they get their news on the site. When
- [The Power Of Fiction](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-power-of-fiction/) - Generally, I read nonfiction, and after a career producing documentaries, I go out of my way to watch as many of them as I can. But as the news of the day becomes overwhelming, I find myself looking to fiction as a means of intellectual escape. Ah, if only it were that easy. Today, I’d
- [The Future Of Autosapiens, AI That Learns And Evolves](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-future-of-autosapiens-ai-that-learns-and-evolves/) - I’ve been talking to robots a lot lately. I suspect you have, too. It starts, of course, in my living room, where I have an ongoing conversation with Alexa: lights, radio stations, weather, news. Over the last four to six months, the conversation has become somewhat contentious. You may be having the same experience. As
- [Notifications: Wasting My Precious Time](https://sustainablemedia.center/notifications-wasting-my-precious-time/) - I’m not sure I can track the actual number of messages, updates, and notifications increasingly nibbling away at minutes in my day. But I’m sure that the number is growing — and those who send me those notifications, much like junk mail lenders, don’t have any concerns about my waste of time. Here are a
- [Amazon’s Alexa: The Free Ride is Over](https://sustainablemedia.center/amazons-alexa-the-free-ride-is-over/) - The vision of Alexa was that Amazon would have a powerful foothold in your home, and buying from Amazon would be so much easier if you could place orders with a voice command. “Alexa, we’re out of toilet paper, can you send me some?” would trigger an order of your favorite brand without the click
- [Rising Calls To Fight Social Media Addiction](https://sustainablemedia.center/rising-calls-to-fight-social-media-addiction/) - Addiction isn’t a word that scientists, medical professionals, and politicians throw around casually. And yet New York has become the first major city to designate social media as an environmental toxin or “public health hazard.” “Companies like TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook are fueling a mental health crisis by designing their platforms with addictive and dangerous
- [TikTok Doom Loop](https://sustainablemedia.center/tiktok-doom-loop/) - Starting with the allegations against TikTok: The U.S. government has an agency named CFIUS, tasked with monitoring foreign entities operating in the U.S. After a year of scrutinizing TikTok, it has reached no definitive conclusions, essentially hitting a deadlock. For Congress to label TikTok as a threat, one would expect solid evidence. To clarify, I
- [SXSW: A Year Of Innovation And Introspection](https://sustainablemedia.center/sxsw-a-year-of-innovation-and-introspection-2/) - SXSW is always a mix of the serious and a bit of a journey into the unknown. This year, Austin was alive with possibilities and… Continue reading on Medium »
- [The Sustainable Media Center Welcomes Stelter, Crowley, and Palfrey to Its Board of Advisors](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-sustainable-media-center-welcomes-stelter-crowley-and-palfrey-to-its-board-of-advisors/) - The Sustainable Media Center is pleased to announce that Brian Stelter, Dennis Crowley, and John Pavolic - three extraordinary leaders in tech, journalism, and philanthropy - have joined as members of the Sustainable Media Center Board of Advisors. NEW YORK (PRWEB) JUNE 01, 2023 The Sustainable Media Center is pleased to announce that Brian Stelter,
- [Move Fast And Fix Things](https://sustainablemedia.center/move-fast-and-fix-things/) - Move Fast And Fix Things If you want to know just how quickly things have changed, just ask Julie Scelfo, who’s a media ecologist (one who studies the interactions of communications media, technology, and processes with human feelings and behavior)and a mom. "I have three teen boys, 12, 14 and 17,” said Scelfo. “When my
- [Sustainable Media - Mission -](https://sustainablemedia.center/sustainable-media-mission/) - A new generation of media consumers and creators have become increasingly reliant on a set of electronic platforms that are known to have an enormous influence on the health of their users. These platforms' business models drive to invade privacy while monetizing every aspect of users’ lives. A civil and democratic society is at risk
- [Esther Dyson, Roger McNamee, And Media Metabolism](https://sustainablemedia.center/esther-dyson-roger-mcnamee-and-media-metabolism/) - When you ask Esther Dyson, who began her career as fact-checker/reporter for Forbes, about the challenges facing media, she inevitably answers in a complex and nuanced way. Media, she’s quick to explain, is not one thing. For example, mass media is a church, while news media is a pew in that church. It makes sentences
- [Teens and Media - a conversation](https://sustainablemedia.center/teens-and-media-a-conversation/) - Sometimes, the best thing you can do as a journalist is to eavesdrop. Find a place where you can sit quietly in the corner and just listen. So that’s what we did. We invited seven GenZ young people to have a conversation about media, and then – with their permission – we recorded what they
- [Carl Sagan And The Dumbing Down Of America](https://sustainablemedia.center/carl-sagan-and-the-dumbing-down-of-america/) - Carl Sagan And The Dumbing Down Of America Carl Sagan’s remarkable life as an astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author made him uniquely suited to ask complicated questions. At the University of Chicago in the 1950s, the-then 16-year-old Sagan took courses in philosophy, science, and literature. He was among many things, a deep
- [The Gamification Of Media](https://sustainablemedia.center/the-gamification-of-media/) - It's easy to miss the changes going on in media because chances are, they’re happening in a world hidden from view. But just ask two of the world's industry leaders, and they are certain of what’s the fastest growing sector: gaming. When you look at how cable television was built from the ground up, the
- [Is The Current State Of Media Sustainable?](https://sustainablemedia.center/is-the-current-state-of-media-sustainable/) - No matter how you view the world, as a media maker, an ad seller, or a parent, you can’t help but feel that media, in its current incarnation, is doing more damage than it is building a safer, more sustainable society. The gnawing feeling in the pit of our collective stomachs grows more urgent by
- [Data Privacy Deadly Serious Now, Says Cory Booker](https://sustainablemedia.center/data-privacy-deadly-serious-now-says-cory-booker/) - When I first met Cory Booker at SXSW in 2012, he wanted to talk about the importance of politicians using then-emerging platforms to connect with a new generation of voters. And Booker was very much doing that, in a way that was authentic and genuine. I’m talking about back to when Booker was mayor of
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- [Misinformation – pervasive, potent, problematic](https://sustainablemedia.center/misinformation-pervasive-potent-problematic/) - Defining termsJoan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, explains: Misinformation: Spreading false information (rumors, insults, and pranks). Disinformation: The creation and distribution of intentionally false information, usually for political ends (scams, hoaxes, forgeries). Infodemic: World Health Organization defines an infodemic as “an overabundance of information—some accurate and some

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