Dear Friends and Family, Happy Holidays from CreativeFuture HQ, where we may be scattered to the four winds, but where our collective Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanza/Diwali/Tet/Festivus spirit is as strong as ever. Like much of the rest of the world, we went remote in 2020, checking in over an endless stream of video... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
The election is over, but political division is here to stay. Unfortunately. For now, we remain a deeply polarized nation. It is a sad truth that many Americans are so passionate about their political beliefs that they cannot imagine discussing politics with someone from the other side, let alone being... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
Representative Ted Deutch, of Florida’s 22nd district, is a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee. RUTH VITALE: Ted, thank you so much for agreeing to this interview. You were one of the first Members of Congress I ever met after taking this job at CreativeFuture. And you remain one... Read more
The real-world mayhem many predicted for the 2020 election never quite materialized. But there has been plenty of online mayhem before and after – much of it on Facebook. With powerful forces sowing confusion and chaos across every major platform, our collective rage, mistrust, and anxiety just keeps on burning... Read more
By Justin Sanders
There are so many big pleasures we miss about going to movie theaters – the popcorn, the velvety seats, the camaraderie – that it’s easy to overlook the small ones, like movie posters. But the life-sized posters lining the walls at the cinema are an intrinsic part of the movie-going... Read more
It’s been a long, tough year – and yes, we are as tired of hearing that sentiment as you are. That is why we suggest taking a much-deserved break from, well, the world this Thanksgiving and just living your best life for a few days. If you are anything like... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
YouTube is losing the battle against toxic content. A recent Wired article details the algorithmic tweaks that YouTube implemented after the 2017 mass-shooting in Las Vegas sparked a wave of false-flag videos on its platform. The terrible behavior of some of its users following a national tragedy compelled YouTube to embark on nothing... Read more
It’s official: On October 20, the Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to “stop Google from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices.” From making itself the default search engine on billions of mobile devices to then making its own products “undeletable” on those devices, Google has... Read more
By Justin Sanders
In July, The New York Times reported on an organization called the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI), a think tank funded by the likes of Google and other Big Tech heavyweights. Its goal, per the newspaper: to wine and dine, cajole, pamper, and influence government officials around the world who enforce competition laws. Offering opulent... Read more
ALL TIMELINE UPDATES July 24, 2020 Google Helps Fund a Think Tank Geared Toward Wooing Regulators The first lesson in staving off antitrust regulation is “don’t become a soulless monopoly.” The second lesson is to get the antitrust officials on your side. Having clearly failed the first lesson, Google aced... Read more