Climate Change

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i think the future of our lives and of humanity really depends on an actually a not even very complicated set of actions, but just simply having the political will that everybody yonow loses if we don't act. i would say that the us. Government is already a puppet or shadow government of the forces of polarization, disinformation that have already been sown these companies. And so, you know, where i'm optimistic is if the united states, or specifically california as a state legislator, could actually act. The u k. Has actually got some stuff that's moving with the off come internet harms report that's moving along. But why not do it right here, where the companies

The sound of bullies on social media can be deafening, but what about their victims? “They're just sitting there being pummeled and pummeled and pummeled,” says Fadi Quran. As the campaign director of Avaaz, a platform for 62 million activists worldwide, Fadi and his team go to great lengths to figure out exactly how social media is being weaponized against vulnerable communities, including those who have no voice online at all. “They can't report it. They’re not online.” Fadi says. “They can't even have a conversation about it.” But by bringing these voices of survivors to Silicon Valley, Fadi says, tech companies can not just hear the lethal consequences of algorithmic abuse, they can start hacking away at a system that Fadi argues was “designed for bullies.”