eSafety chief says Big Tech smear tactics targeted her kids
On December 10, Australia will drop a legal hammer and become the first country in the world to ban social media accounts for under-16s. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, X, and Threads are all caught in the dragnet and face fines if they stuff it up.It sets a frightening precedent for platforms which have banked trillions by being unregulated - and as the deadline has approached, the eSafety Commissioner at the heart of it has revealed she and her family have been targeted by a dirty tricks campaign.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Journalism’s warrior taking the fight to DC and tech’s doorstep
Today we're joined by one of the most influential figures in journalism. Danielle Coffey is President and CEO of the News/Media Alliance and was just named one of the most powerful women in Washington.She’s leading a global charge on behalf of 2,000 news and magazine publishers to reshape how journalism is protected, funded and valued in the digital age. She talks about AI theft, Google power, why regulators terrify tech, and how the tide is turning.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Advertisers see no value in news but Google knows society will pay
Google’s former global news chief has a blunt warning: The world is quietly voting against facts. And when Google Search throttled news in Australia and Canada during a high-stakes regulatory standoff… almost nobody noticed.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Google’s news chief reveals sharing traffic was never the goal
Richard Gingras has been one of the most influential figures at the intersection of news and tech over the past 40 years. He’s seen it from multiple angles: As a journalist, as an internet pioneer - but most notably as VP of Google News, and the architect of the Google News Initiative. He shares tough truths and triggering insights about how he sees news failing in a fracturing digital landscape.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Inside DuckDuckGo - can privacy win the browser wars?
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” It’s a line we’ve all heard, but in an AI-powered world of constant surveillance, it’s never felt truer - or scarier. Today’s guest is someone who has spent years trying to fix it.Joe Jerome is the Senior Public Policy Manager at DuckDuckGo - the search engine that built a business by saying no to surveillance. No cookies, no creepy trackers, no data slurping for profit. Just search, without the stalker.Joe’s spent time inside DC’s policy circles, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and now sits at the heart of the privacy vanguard - working to reshape internet regulation, user rights, and the future of ethical tech.We talk surveillance capitalism, the shifting browser wars, emerging AI, and whether regulators, judges and governments have the spine to go up against Big Tech’s trillion-dollar dragnet.And we ask: Can a company like DuckDuckGo survive and scale - without selling you?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Two fearless pioneers share the lessons learned over 30 years at the top of the media, tech, marketing and legal industries - with some real-life stories and radical new ideas thrown in to spice things up...
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