CBS News, Sept. 26, 2025: Why is YouTube allowing banned creators to return?

MSNBC, Jan 8, 2025: Meta's Fact Checking Move Has Nothing to Do With Free Speech

ABC News, Nov 8, 2024: The Spread of Online Hate

Bloomberg TV, Oct. 10. 2023: The role of social media in the Hamas/Israel war

MSNBC Morning Joe, June 27, 2023: Online Hate and Harassment Surges

CNN documentary, June 18, 2023: The 2010s, The Social Media Boom

NBC News special Dec. 14, 2022: Epidemic of Hate, Antisemitism in America

CNN Reliable Sources, March 6, 2022: Ukraine war could be 'pivot point' for Big Tech

PBS Newshour, Oct 25, 2021: Interview on Facebook Whistleblower revelations

CNN Anderson Cooper 360, Oct 6, 2021: Interview on the Facebook Whistleblower

CNN Reliable Sources, Sept 19, 2021:

Part 1: Will 'Facebook Files' revelations spur any real change?

Part 2: How 'do your own research' hurts America's Covid response

CBS Sunday Morning: A protected right? Free speech and social media

BBC Clicked: Is Big Tech Too Big?

CNN interview on Twitter vs Trump and Facebook, and Section 230 reform

Bloomberg TV: Why the 2020 Election Could Be a Mail-in NightmareUnderstanding the U.S. National Security & Intelligence Landscape, and What Lies Ahead; NYU Center for Global Affairs, September 2017

CNBC: Facebook's Fight Against Fake News During The 2020 Election

ABC News: Big brands boycott Facebook over hate speech

CBS News interview on Intel Leaks

CNN interview on Trump and the CIA

BBC World News interview on FBI Memo release

Shades of Red and Blue Summit "On the Ground: (4 minute round-up)

PBS Third Rail with OZY: Should America Be the World's Cop

The Contrarian: For Meta, The Mask Is Off: They Knowingly Harmed Children

Commonwealth Beacon: Meta should not get a pass on accountability for potential harm of products to minors

The Bulwark: Zuckerberg vs. Democracy; The changes he’s making to appease Donald Trump won’t fix the ways Facebook is harmful to our civic and political life.

Report: "Preventing Tech-Fueled Political Violence: What online platforms can do to ensure they do not contribute to election-related violence", and Washington Post coverage: "How social media can avoid fueling another Jan 6."

Just Security: Tech Platforms Must Do More to Avoid Contributing to Potential Political Violence

Tech Policy Press: Yesterday’s Legislation is Failing Us in the Fight Against Tech-Fueled Violence

The Hill: Hate is surging online — and social media companies are in denial. Congress can help protect users

Tech Policy Press: Breaking Open Tech's Black Box

TIME: The Dangers of Letting Donald Trump Back on Facebook

Noema Magazine: The Myth of Tech Exceptionalism: How tech uses the promise of endless innovation to ward off regulating even its present-day harms

Washington Post: Facebook silences the people who know its operations best: Tech giants use nondisparagement clauses to keep former employees from discussing the companies

The Daily Beast: Believe Me, Mark Zuckerberg Isn't Going to Police Himself; The Oversight Board process isn’t about Donald Trump’s free speech. It’s about Facebook’s power.

Harvard Business Review: How to Hold Social Media Accountable for Undermining Democracy

TechWorker: Facebook employees must see the platform’s dark side too

The Information: The Tech Giants’ Cultures Are Incompatible With Fixing the Societal Problems They’re Causing

The Guardian: Yaël Eisenstat: 'Facebook is ripe for manipulation and viral misinformation'

Washington Post: I worked on political ads at Facebook. They profit by manipulating us.

Brookings Institution, Techstream: How to Combat Online Voter Suppression

UNC-CITAP and Cornell Tech: Additional Steps Platforms Can Take to Protect the Vote

Cornell Tech Digital Life Initiative: Section 230 Revisited: Web Freedom vs Accountability

WIRED: The Real Reason Tech Struggles With Algorithmic Bias

NY Times Op-Ed: The Shocking Affront of Donald Trump's C.I.A. Stunt

TIME.com: Former Intel. Official: American Hate Is a Bigger Threat Than Foreign Terrorism

Quartz: The Enemy Within: a former CIA officer’s plea to America

Huffington Post: Reclaiming Patriotism in Trump's America

Technically Human: Social Media's Big Tobacco Moment

Tech Policy Press: A National Heist? Evaluating Elon Musk’s March Through Washington

The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC: Meta Prepares for Trump 2.0

WBUR On Point: How social media companies are preparing for misinformation after Election Day

NPR TED Radio Hour: The Hidden Role of Friction in Our Lives

Marketplace Tech: Telegram-linked ads on Meta platforms may promote illegal activity, report finds

The Lincoln Project: The Far-Right is Rising

Tech Policy Press: Congress vs. Zuckerberg, Dorsey & Pichai

Big Technology Podcast: Who Criticizes the Tech Critics? A Meta Talk With ‘Real Facebook Oversight Board’ Members Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat

Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

The Prof G Show with Scott Galloway: Algorithms and the Threats to Democracy

Infotagion (hosted by British Member of Parliament Damian Collins): Facebook, Elections Integrity, Disinformation, and Accountability

First Contact with Laurie Segall: She Spent 10+ Years at the CIA. It Didn’t Prepare Her for Life at Facebook.

Your Undivided Attention: "With Great Power Comes... No Responsibility?" (Inside Yaël's Facebook story).

Angry Americans: Working Inside the CIA and Facebook... (Note: Interview begins at minute 50).

Good Code: Yael Eisenstat on Facebook and Political Ads

Let’s Talk about the Techlash! Funny as Tech LIVE SHOW, NYC, March 10th, 2020

Slate podcast, What Next, TBD?: A Former Facebook Insider on Why it's So Hard for the Tech Giant to Get Elections Right

DTNS podcast: Who's Responsible for Tech's Social Disruptions?

TOA.Life podcast: "All-Around Badass Woman"

TNW (Berlin) podcast: "What Effect is Tech Having on Society?"

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs podcast: Trump and the Intelligence Community

Global Digital Rights Forum in Barcelona, May 2026: Keynote speech on "Social Media, Algorithms and Democracy: where does accountability lie? (El Pais news story of Yael's participation.)

Human and Digital Forum in Seoul, South Korea, June 2025. Keynote speech on "Social Media, Algorithms and Democracy: where does accountability lie?" (Local press coverage on Yael's participation.)

World Forum on Democracy, Tech and Humankind in Berlin, March 2025

State of the Net (SOTN) 2025: The Frontiers For Free Speech In The Trump Era: The Content Moderator's Dilemma; Feb. 2025

Congressional Internet Caucus Academy: Tech Platforms and the 1st Amendment: Impact of Supreme Court Rulings; July, 2024.

UNFPA Global Dialogue on Technology: Digital Data and Alternative Business Models; June 2024.

Munich Dialogues on Democracy: Democracy's Cyber Defendant, Polarization, Elections and AI; April 2024.

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR): Societal Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), March 2024.

Parliament of World Religions: Keynote Address to the Women’s Assembly about online hate and harassment; Chicago 2023

Nobel Prize Summit on Truth, Trust and Hope: Washington, DC; May, 2023.

State of the Net (SOTN): Section 230, How will lawmakers seek to reform it?; March 2023.

How female tech workers are taking on Big Tech; Nov 2021.

European Parliament special committee on foreign interferences in democratic processes, S&D webinar: Social platforms, foreign interferences, democracy; June 2021

SXSW (socially distant) panel: Section 230 Revisited: Web Freedom vs Accountability; April 2020

Information warfare and the future of media at the NYC Media Lab Summit '19 Innovation Panel: Media 2030

Tech Open Air Berlin: Keynote Fireside Chat, July 2017

Understanding the U.S. National Security & Intelligence Landscape, and What Lies Ahead; NYU Center for Global Affairs, September 2017

Shades of Red and Blue Summit: "The Problem of Strangers", a bi-partisan panel on immigration, refugees and national security issues (full video)