Inside the Right-Wing YouTube Empire That’s Quietly Turning Millennials Into Conservatives

Inside the Right-Wing YouTube Empire That’s Quietly Turning Millennials Into Conservatives

Why the Right Is Dominating YouTube
And why the left needs to own the future of online video.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3dy7vb/why-the-right-is-dominating-youtube

James Damore, Google, and the YouTube radicalization of angry white men
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/13/james-damore-google-memo-youtube-white-men-radicalization

Media Matters: Under Facebook’s new algorithm, conservative meme pages are outperforming all political news pages
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/07/24/under-facebook-s-new-algorithm-conservative-meme-pages-are-outperforming-all-political-news-pages/220768

ALEX JONES KEEPS ON STREAMING DESPITE YOUTUBE’S LIVE BAN
http://adage.com/article/digital/alex-jones-streaming-youtube-s-live-ban/314393/?utm_source=mediaworks&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=adage&ttl=1533244619&utm_visit=262078

But in text, it’s a different story

Twitter Responds to Shadow Banning Outcry: ‘We Have a Lot More Work to Do to Earn People’s Trust’
https://www.thewrap.com/twitter-responds-to-shadowbanning-scandal-we-have-a-lot-more-work-to-do-to-earn-peoples-trust/

And social too:

Under Facebook’s new algorithm, conservative meme pages are outperforming all political news pages
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/07/24/under-facebook-s-new-algorithm-conservative-meme-pages-are-outperforming-all-political-news-pages/220768

But – all is not lost.

The Future of Media:

Visualizing the Future of Media and Entertainment

Predicting the Future of Media and Entertainment

Roku:The King Of TV?
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/322590/the-king-of-tv.html

Block chain? CIVIL and the future of media?
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/07/civil-future-media.html

So, let me ask.. are you hungry? This week on FutureForward… we explore the Future of Food. It’s kind of delicious, and a bit scary. Then Reddit responds as users flee. And Facebook get’s caught in a self-inflicted free speech wound. I’m Steven Rosenbaum. And I’m Gene DeRose – and this is FutureForward.

Loving / Hating:

Hating: Articles w/o Dates / Date-Stamping

Reddit Responds To Users

Reddit expands chat rooms to more subreddits

Facebooks Free Speech / Hate Speech Challenge

Dems and GOP unite, slamming Facebook for allowing violent Pages

Dems and GOP unite, slamming Facebook for allowing violent Pages

Facebook Shouldn’t Censor Offensive Speech
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/facebook-shouldnt-censor-offensive-speech

FUTURE OF FOOD

The Future of Food

Disrupting the future of food at IFT18
https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/12181-disrupting-the-future-of-food-at-ift18

CRISPR CAN SPEED UP NATURE—AND CHANGE HOW WE GROW FOOD
https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-tomato-mutant-future-of-food/

The future of food, served up right here in augmented reality
https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2018/07/07/the-future-of-food-served-up-right-here-in-augmented-reality

A global food crisis may be less than a decade away

This week. The end of a love story. My 11 year affair with AT&T is over. Then the Kylie Jenner rocket ship, and what it means for the future of commerce And the summer of the VC. We’ll explore deals that matter I’m Gene DeRose
and I’m Steven Rosenbaum – and this is Future Forward.

FuFWD Rundown:

• AT&T vs. DOJ

Why I Fired AT&T
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/321887/why-i-fired-att.html

Justice Department appeals Time Warner-AT&T merger approval
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/12/justice-department-will-appeal-time-warner-att-merger-approval-dow-j.html

• Kylie Jenner:

• How 20-Year-Old Kylie Jenner Built A $900 Million Fortune In Less Than 3 Years
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/11/how-20-year-old-kylie-jenner-built-a-900-million-fortune-in-less-than-3-years/

Venture Capital Deals Of Interest

– MediaMath, a New York-based operating system for marketers and ad agencies, raised $225 million from Searchlight Capital Partners. It previously raised over $100 million from Spring Lake Equity Partners, Akamai, Safeguard Scientifics, Catalyst Investors and Observatory Capital. http://axios.link/5SFQ

– Greenhouse, a New York-based recruiting platform, raised $50 million from Riverwood Capital. http://axios.link/ZL12

– Cosential, an Austin, Texas-based provider of CRM and proposal automation software for construction and architecture, raised $34 million in new funding from JMI Equity. www.cosential.com

– Lumiata, a healthcare-focused predictive analytics startup based in San Mateo, raised $11 million in funding. Khosla Ventures and BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners co-led, and were joined by Sandbox Industries and Intel Capital. http://axios.link/FQlr

– Octi, a Los Angeles-based VR platform focused on human movements, raised $7.5 million in seed funding from backers like Shasta Ventures, I2BF Ventures, Bold Capital Partners, Day One Ventures, Human Ventures Live Nation and AB InBev. http://axios.link/IBXW

– Spring Health, a New York-based mental wellness platform for businesses and employees, raised $6 million in seed funding. ReThink Impact led, and was joined by Work-Bench, BBG Ventures, The Partnership Fund for NYC, RRE Ventures and the William K. Warren Foundation. http://axios.link/xFpm

Summer means it’s time for the Allen & Company Conference in Sun Valley. We didn’t get an invite – so we decided to host our own, virtually!

So, here’s the Future Forward Summer Retreat (Virtual), with a star-studded guest list, and some pretty provocative one on one conversations.

First, the guests:
Tim Armstrong – Oath
Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
Tim Cook – Apple
Sundar Pichai / google
Satya Nadella / Microsoft
Reed Hastings / Netflix
Kevin York Systrom – Instagram
Shantanu Narayen, CEO Adobe
Randall Stephenson, CEO, AT&T
Meg Whitman – New TV
Jack Dorsey – Square and Twitter
Evan Spiegel – Snap
Jeff Bezos – Amazon
Elon Musk – Tesla
Ben Silberman – Pinterest
Hans Vestberg, CEO Verizon
Mark Thompson, CEO The NY Times
Rupert Murdoch, CEO Fox
Bob Iger, Disney
Now, the encounters:

– Tim Cook has coffee with Jack Dorsey
– Mark Zuckerberg has a drink with Mark Thompson
– Tim Armstrong plays tennis with Jeff Bezos
– Rupert Murdoch and Bob Iger talk about Disney and Fox.
– Hans Vestberg Randall Stephenson
– Elon Musk and Reed Hastings