craigs list newmark
see uber 1?
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Okay, what I do is find people who are really good at their jobs, and who can tolerate my sense of humor. I provide them with resources, and then get outta their way.
- military families and vets (new grants portal here)
- #CyberCivilDefense #cybersecurity
- trustworthy journalism
- pigeon rescue
*(I retired from craigslist a few years ago.)
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Mastodon: @craignewmark@mastodon.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craignewmark
Bluesky: @craignewmark.bsky.social
Twitter: @craignewmark
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NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Nowadays, most of Craig's time is spent on philanthropic work and he's not involved in craigslist day-to-day management and doesn't serve as a spokesperson for craigslist. If you are seeking information or comment related to craigslist, please contact press@craigslist.org.
About Craig Newmark Philanthropies
Craig Newmark is a Web pioneer and philanthropist, best known for creating the online classified ads service craigslist. Craig’s full-time philanthropic work focuses on organizations on the frontlines of protecting America’s security and democracy. He has given more than $300 million in support of veterans and military families, trustworthy journalism and civic engagement campaigns, cyber security education programs, hunger relief, and pigeon rescue.
Craig was influenced by his Sunday School teachers who escaped the Holocaust, set his moral compass, and taught him to treat people like you want to be treated – and how to know when enough is enough. He stepped away from the day-to-running of craigslist almost two decades ago, but he still occasionally volunteers as a customer service representative.
Board and similar memberships
- Blue Star Families
- Bob Woodruff Foundation
- Center for Public Integrity
- City College of San Francisco – Veterans Educational Transition Services Lounge
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Consumers Union/Consumer Reports
- Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
- Cybercrime Support Network
- DonorsChoose.org
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Girls Who Code
- God's Love We Deliver NYC
- International Womens’ Media Foundation
- Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
- Journalism and Media Ethics Council, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
- McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
- New America Foundation
- News Integrity Initiative
- NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights Advisory Council
- Organic Health Response
- Poynter Foundation
- Politifact.com
- Press Forward
- Service to School
- Sierra Club (Art and Entertainment Council)
- Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
- Smithsonian American Women's History Museum’s Advisory Council
- Swords to Plowshares
- The 19th
- The City
- The Forward
- U.S. Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation
- Voto Latino
- VetsInTech
- Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Women Who Tech
- Women in Public Service Project (On hiatus)
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IN THE NEWS
Craig Newmark on Safeguarding Independent Journalism and Democracy
June 17th, 2024 — Moment
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Craig Newmark Is Donating $10M to Help CUNY’s Journalism School Become Tuition-Free
January 25th, 2024 — Observer
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Craig Newmark of Craigslist Has a New Mission: Saving Democracy
October 27th, 2023 — Observer
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Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark Pledges $100M to Veterans and Military Families
June 13th, 2023 — Observer
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“We’ve Got to ‘Greatest Generation’ This.” Craig Newmark Has Hope for American Democracy
March 21st, 2024 — Inside Philanthropy
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Foundation donates $1 million to help military-connected families impacted by fires
December 6th, 2023 — Lahaina News
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Craig Newmark Philanthropies and Common Sense Media Join Forces to Advance Awareness and Advocacy for AI, Cybersecurity, and Tech Safety
September 6th, 2023 — Common Sense
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east bay times
stanford University officials have denied that the school is shutting down its prominent research group studying online harms, the Stanford Internet Observatory, but acknowledged funding challenges.
“Stanford has not shut down or dismantled SIO as a result of outside pressure,” the university said in a recent statement following reports of its demise.
A June 13 Platformer article alleged Stanford “is quietly dismantling” the SIO. Founding director Alex Stamos left his position in November, the center’s research director, Renee DiResta, left “after her contract was not renewed” recently and other staff members were “told to look for jobs elsewhere,” the article wrote.
In a LinkedIn post Tuesday, DiResta wrote that “it’s unclear what the future holds, but several of us are no longer there.”
Conservative groups and lawmakers have hit the institute with costly lawsuits and congressional investigations. The bulk of the controversy is related to the Election Integrity Partnership, a research project within the observatory and in collaboration with the University of Washington and others that studied disinformation related to the 2020 election. As part of their work, researchers would identify certain social media posts as misleading and refer some to social media companies.
DiResta talked about the lawsuits related to her work at the center in a piece published in The Atlantic earlier this month.
“Meanwhile, conservative groups are suing my former colleagues and me,” DiResta said in the article. “Stanford has run up huge legal bills. SIO’s future is unclear, and its effort to monitor election-related misinformation has been shelved.”
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan has spearheaded right-wing opposition to disinformation efforts, arguing conservatives are being censored when their social media posts are tagged as misinformation and alleging that the observatory is colluding with the government.
“Free speech wins again!” Jordan posted on X (formerly Twitter), after it was reported that the center would supposedly close down.
DiResta has denied that the center, with the Election Integrity Partnership, has the power to take down posts. Social media companies, not the observatory, have the ability to remove posts on their respective platforms.
The partnership, which culminated in an almost-300 page report, continued into the 2022 election. But, according to the EIP’s website, the project “finished its work after the 2022 election and will not be working on the 2024 or future elections.”
“The EIP’s collaborative model was tailored toward a specific event—Election 2020,” the researchers wrote in the report.
Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center said in a statement Monday that the SIO would “continue its important work” under the leadership of faculty director Jeff Hancock.
“SIO will continue its critical work on child safety and other online harms, its publication of the Journal of Online Trust & Safety, the Trust & Safety Research Conference, and the Trust & Safety Teaching Consortium,” its statement read. “Additionally, SIO faculty and staff will continue their work looking into psychological and media research questions associated with misinformation around the 2024 election.”
The center, which launched in 2019 with a $5 million grant from Craig Newman Philanthropies, openly admitted facing funding challenges.
“[The center’s] founding grants will soon be exhausted. As a result, SIO continues to actively seek support for its research and teaching programs under new leadership,” Stanford said.
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The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public will continue work on the 2024 election “along the same trajectory as our work with the Election Integrity Partnership in 2020 and 2022,” read a March post on the CIP website.
Kate Starbird, co-founder and faculty director of the CIP, wrote in a 2023 Seattle Times opinion piece that “[a]t the UW, we’re not buckling and won’t be bullied. Our team plans to continue our rapid research during the 2024 elections.”
“Though we are no longer collaborating on “rapid research” with the original partners in the Election Integrity Partnership, our real-time election research at UW continues and we are forming new collaborations to support and share this work,” Starbird wrote in a recent email to this news organization. “We continue to collaborate with researchers at SIO on work related to online rumoring and misinformation.”
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Free Speech For People is honored to receive a new grant award from Craig Newmark Philanthropies. The funds from the award will go towards our work to challenge corruption, secure free and fair elections, and defend our democracy!
Craig Newmark Philanthropies works to protect the values that America aspires to: fairness, opportunity, and respect. We are grateful to receive this critical support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies and to work together to strengthen our democratic process.
With this support, Free Speech For People will carry out the following key initiatives:
- Challenging foreign influence in elections:Free Speech For People has researched, drafted, and fought for state and local legislation to fight political spending by foreign-influenced corporations. In 2023, Minnesota became the first state to enact our model legislation to prohibit foreign-influenced corporations from spending money in elections. Similar legislation is being consider in California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington. Click here to learn more!
- Fighting for free and fair elections:Free Speech For People has taken legal actions in multiple states to challenge voter intimidation, as well as laws that seek to suppress and disenfranchise voters. Our ongoing work to protect the right to vote has already yielded major victories in Minnesota, Texas and other states. Click here to learn more!
- Advancing new Democracy Amendments:We have drafted and are now advancing a series of constitutional amendments including the Free and Fair Elections Amendment to end big money dominance of our elections; the Right to Vote Amendment; an amendment to abolish the Electoral College; and the Equal Rights Amendment. Click here to learn more!
- Holding elected officials accountable to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution:Free Speech For People has launched a campaign calling on state election officials across the country to uphold Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which disqualifies all insurrectionists who engaged in the January 6, 2021 insurrection from holding future public office. In support of this campaign, we have filed a series of legal challenges against former president Donald Trump in multiple states and continue to build a grassroots movement in support of holding him accountable to the Constitution.
Thank you to Craig Newmark Philanthropies for this generous support of Free Speech For People’s work to ensure all people have an equal voice and an equal vote in our democracy!
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Craigslist turns 25 – a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive
Jessa Lingel, University of Pennsylvania
Remember when websites didn't rely on user data for profit margins, when values like anonymity and transparency were celebrated?