Vivek Murthy
Dr. Vivek H. Murthy served as the 19th and 21st surgeon general of the United States from 2015 to 2017 and again from 2021 to 2025, under Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.
In his most recent tenure as surgeon general, Murthy increasingly expressed concern about the impact of social media on young users' mental health.
Tristan Harris
Tristan is Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to align technology with humanity’s best interests.
In 2020, Tristan was featured in the two-time Emmy-winning Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma.
Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle is a Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her groundbreaking work explores how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines.
Frances Haugen
Frances Haugen is a leading advocate for accountability & transparency in social media, and the founder of Beyond The Screen. She is known as the Facebook Whistleblower, after disclosing tens of thousands of Facebook's internal documents in 2021.
Cal Newport
Cal is an MIT-trained computer science professor at Georgetown University who also writes about the intersections of technology, work, and the quest to find depth in an increasingly distracted world.
Adam Alter
Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His 2017 New York Times bestselling book “Irresistible” explores contemporary behavioral addictions, from incessant smart phone use, to video game playing and compulsive online shopping.
Laura Marquez-Garrett
Laura Marquez-Garrett is an Attorney at the Social Media Victims Law Center, which works to hold social media companies legally accountable for the harm they inflict on vulnerable users.