David Sandalow is the Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He founded and directs the Center’s US-China Program and is author of the ...
Amid mounting legal and financial strife, mainstream platform companies—from Meta and YouTube to TikTok and Twitch--are doubling down on their idealistic framing of the digital “Creator Economy.” But the image of social media as an entrepreneurial Promised Land ...
DeCentalized Social Media Workshop
Online platforms like Facebook, Wikipedia, Amazon, and LinkedIn are embedded in the very fabric of our society. They “curate content:” moderate, recommend, and monetize it, and, in doing so, can impact people’s lives positively or negatively. This ...
Decisions about policies when using widely-deployed technologies, including social media and more recently, generative AI, are often made in a centralized and top-down fashion. Yet these systems are used by millions of people, with a diverse set of preferences ...
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) —large-scale digital platforms that support digital ID, payments, and data exchange—is a profoundly political proposition with significant ramifications for our digital future, human rights, the relationship between people and states, and the distribution of power among governments and industry players. Join us from 4 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. for a public […]