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Restoring Our Sanity Online with Mark Weinstein
Manage episode 458857067 series 2801400
To kick off 2025, we’re releasing a conversation that Evolving Leader co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Mark Weinstein. Mark is a tech entrepreneur, contemporary thought leader, privacy expert and one of the inventors of social networking. His work around social media, privacy, AI, free speech antitrust and protecting children online is widely published in publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fox, CNN and the BBC (to name but a few).
Mark has been listed as one of the ‘Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy’ and his book ‘Restoring Our Sanity Online’ was published in September 2024.
In this conversation, Mark talks about the profound impact of social media on society, politics and well-being, highlighting the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 where users became the product, leading to surveillance capitalism.
This is an important listen.
Social:
Instagram @evolvingleader
LinkedIn The Evolving Leader Podcast
Bluesky @evolvingleader.bsky.social
YouTube @evolvingleader
The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.
Chapters
1. Introduction (00:00:00)
2. Check-in (00:03:41)
3. What’s the background to your story? (00:04:11)
4. What was web 1.0 and what was your role in the birth of web 2.0? (00:06:41)
5. Research into how social media manipulates us to make us attractive to advertisers. (00:12:18)
6. 64% of people agree that social media is bad for democracy, but engagement remains high. (00:17:23)
7. What do we need to start doing as individuals? (00:26:29)
8. Advice for leaders who use social media as part of their work. (00:34:30)
9. Talk to us about the battle for privacy and anonymity. (00:40:33)
10. What are the obstacles preventing us from doing that? (00:45:25)
194 episodes
Manage episode 458857067 series 2801400
To kick off 2025, we’re releasing a conversation that Evolving Leader co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Mark Weinstein. Mark is a tech entrepreneur, contemporary thought leader, privacy expert and one of the inventors of social networking. His work around social media, privacy, AI, free speech antitrust and protecting children online is widely published in publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fox, CNN and the BBC (to name but a few).
Mark has been listed as one of the ‘Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy’ and his book ‘Restoring Our Sanity Online’ was published in September 2024.
In this conversation, Mark talks about the profound impact of social media on society, politics and well-being, highlighting the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 where users became the product, leading to surveillance capitalism.
This is an important listen.
Social:
Instagram @evolvingleader
LinkedIn The Evolving Leader Podcast
Bluesky @evolvingleader.bsky.social
YouTube @evolvingleader
The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.
Chapters
1. Introduction (00:00:00)
2. Check-in (00:03:41)
3. What’s the background to your story? (00:04:11)
4. What was web 1.0 and what was your role in the birth of web 2.0? (00:06:41)
5. Research into how social media manipulates us to make us attractive to advertisers. (00:12:18)
6. 64% of people agree that social media is bad for democracy, but engagement remains high. (00:17:23)
7. What do we need to start doing as individuals? (00:26:29)
8. Advice for leaders who use social media as part of their work. (00:34:30)
9. Talk to us about the battle for privacy and anonymity. (00:40:33)
10. What are the obstacles preventing us from doing that? (00:45:25)
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