1 hour agoWhen Bad Spam Gets SmartI 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…3 min read3 min read
Nov 27A Tale Of Two ParadesThe Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is, more than anything else, a two-hour-long commercial. Albeit, a fun one. There are brands looking to refresh their image, performers who want to be back in the limelight, and above all, Macy’s, which seeks to launch the holiday shopping season with a powerful reminder…Thanksgiving3 min readThanksgiving3 min read
Nov 21We Have Questions For Mark ZuckerbergSometimes 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. …3 min read3 min read
Nov 14Social Media Harms: Victims’ Voices MatterEmma 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…3 min read3 min read
Nov 6Barack Obama Calls For A New Kind Of MediaFormer 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…Obama3 min readObama3 min read
Oct 30Meta Lawsuit Shines Bright Light On Painful ProfitsDepending 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…Meta3 min readMeta3 min read
Oct 23Gen 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…Genz3 min readGenz3 min read
Oct 17Member-onlyMeghan, Duchess Of Sussex: ‘Don’t Blame Parents’When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex invite you to join them for a conversation, you don’t say no. But I went to the Archewell Parents’ Summit, “Mental Wellness in the Digital Age,” with some trepidation. With the brutal attacks in Israel echoing in my head, I worried that somehow…Teens3 min readTeens3 min read
Oct 14“The organizing principle of today’s politics is stay interesting”Max Fisher, author of: The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World, in conversation with Jon Favreau, on Offline. (episode 91). Heather Cox Richardson on Donald Trump, Democracy, and Taylor Swift - Offline with Jon Favreau Heather Cox Richardson, historian and author of the Substack's most-read newsletter "Letters from an American," joins…overcast.fm Max Fisher: It is not a coincidence that people like that like the insurgents like Donald Trump like big insurgents were…4 min read4 min read
Oct 10Who’s 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…3 min read3 min read
