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Representative Ro Khanna Wants Creators To Have A Bill Of Rights
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Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, who represents the district comprising Silicon Valley, is readying to introduce a House resolution that would grant digital creators special labor protections.
Why It Influences: Khanna’s “Creator Bill of Rights” wouldn’t immediately give creators broad employment protections, but would instead act as a policy roadmap for advancing federal legislation. With roughly 1.5 million full-time digital creators in the US working within a $250 billion global industry dominated by a handful of uber-powerful tech giants, Khanna sees the resolution as a necessary step to making content creation a sustainable career.
Behind The Call: Crafted in conjunction with Creators 4 Mental Health founder and CEO Shira Lazar, the Creator Bill of Rights calls for policies aimed at alleviating many of creators’ biggest headaches.
It wants platforms to share predictable revenue-sharing terms and clear standards for creators — a key issue for income planning.
It urges greater transparency around AI policies and how those systems could negatively impact creator earnings.
It asks platforms to improve customer service, including reinstating accounts that have been demonetized incorrectly by automated systems.
It proposes portable benefits like healthcare and retirement savings, a move that would mark a big change to healthcare policy for independent contractors.
Final Draft: While these asks will likely get a lot of pushback from the very rich and highly influential companies that control these platforms, creator rights have emerged as a rare bipartisan issue — both sides of the aisle are increasingly vying to win over the digital creator class (why do you think the TikTok ban ultimately failed?). With a Morning Consult survey finding that nearly half of Gen Z believe their “ideal career” would be becoming a content creator, there may be no resolution more closely watched by young voters than this one.
The Future: While Congress could potentially legislate many of the issues facing creators, many will likely need to be addressed through union representation. SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are already working to organize creators, so expect that union push to go into overdrive this year.
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State Of Trust: AI-Driven Attacks Are Getting More Sophisticated
AI-driven attacks are getting bigger, faster, and more sophisticated — making risk much more difficult to contain. Without automation to respond quickly to AI threats, teams are forced to react without a plan in place.
This is according to Vanta’s newest State of Trust report, which surveyed 3,500 business and IT leaders across the globe.
One big change since last year’s report? Teams falling behind AI risks — and spending way more time and energy proving trust than building it.
61% of leaders spend more time proving security rather than improving it.
59% note that AI risks outpace their expertise.
But 95% say AI is making their security teams more effective.
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited, Polled, & Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.