Pissing Off the World's Richest Men: Wherein Ben [Wittes] welcomes Yael Eisenstat, former CIA analyst and current democracy activist, to tell us about her career speaking truth to tech oligarchs. From Yael Eisenstat's Wikipedia entry:
Yaël Eisenstat is an American democracy activist and technology policy expert who has spent over two decades combatting extremism, polarization, and anti-democratic behavior both on- and offline. With experience as one the United States government's top counterextremism officials and as Facebook's former Global Head of Elections Integrity Ops, Eisenstat is best known for being a pioneering voice in shaping public understanding of the ways in which social media contributes to polarization and radicalization.
Eisenstat currently serves as Senior Policy Fellow to Cybersecurity for Democracy, a nonpartisan, independent research institution that exposes online threats to democracy and proposes research-based policy insights on how best to combat them. There, her work focuses on democratic discourse on major social media platforms, AI-powered political messaging, and open information sharing practices in advance of the 2024 presidential election. Before this, Eisenstat served as Vice President to the Anti-Defamation League, where she led the ADL Center for Technology & Society from September 2022 through January 2024.
Prior to her tenure at the Anti-Defamation League, Eisenstat served as the Senior Advisor for Tech and Democracy at the Institute for Security and Technology, and as a Future of Democracy Fellow at the Berggruen Institute. She is a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, National Security Advisor to former Vice President Joe Biden, and diplomat.[2] In 2019 and 2020, she was a visiting fellow at Cornell Tech, where she examined and taught on the impact of technology on media and democracy. From 2017 to 2019, she was an adjunct assistant professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. Between June and November 2018, she was the Global Head of Elections Integrity Ops for political advertising at Facebook. She has become a vocal critic of the company since leaving and is known for her efforts to promote social media platform transparency and accountability.
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