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Craig Newmark

Founder of Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Craig Newmark Philanthropies

Search every verified Craig Newmark interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Craig Newmark discussed his philanthropic work and ongoing efforts to combat online scams and support trustworthy journalism in a series of recent podcast appearances. At the Global Anti-Scam Summit America 2026, he promoted his "Take9" campaign, which encourages people to pause before clicking or sharing, and advocated for greater sharing of threat intelligence among tech companies. He also voiced support for the Global Signal Exchange, an initiative he helps fund that facilitates the exchange of scam-related data, and expressed interest in developing small language models that could run on phones to detect scams. In an interview on the "Birds & Nerds" podcast, he spoke about the importance of reliable sources and described Wikipedia as "where facts go to live," while also praising journalism programs at CUNY for providing opportunities to students. In a September 2026 interview with VladTV, Newmark discussed the origins of Craigslist, stating that he chose to monetize the site as little as possible because "no one needs crazy money." He also said he has written checks totaling $550 million through his philanthropy and plans to give away most of his wealth before he dies, though he has not published specific figures. In another podcast, he said he delegates decision-making to people he believes are better at building networks, a method he said he used with Jim Buckmaster at Craigslist and continues to use in his philanthropy. He also reiterated his view that "a trustworthy press is the immune system of democracy."

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“Well, journalism has a really good record for training a lot of people in trustworthy journalism and then the track record is really good getting people journalism jobs, reasonably well-paying ones, and then graduating without a lot of student debt. We need to work on more of that because they need to fully fund the tuition-free programs. In general, CUNY over I think around 175 years has been really good for New Yor”

“My deal is that I've been working in this area for a long time. I've now been speaking with a lot of the tech companies involved in this for some time and they're all doing a much better job of scam detection particularly on our phones than we normally know about. What I'm doing is I'm encouraging everyone to work together and to build best practices which they can share, best practices which can actually do somethin”

“I wrote checks for a total of 550 million. There's more to come. There's more commitments. And I'm trying to plan ahead 10 maybe 20 years because I want to give it pretty much all the way by the time I pass. The giving pledge is by the time I pass I will have given away I think half of it at least. And frankly the percentage will be much more than that. I so far haven't published specifics because I don't want to rev”

“I just made a decision that we would monetize as little as possible. I'm thinking no one needs crazy money. And it just felt truer to my values to make it as free as possible. The deal is that's kind of what I learned in Sunday school that you should focus on looking out for people and that meant charging as little as possible. And that's the current Craigslist approach.”

“I think that the people on the front line of scam fighting do everything they can to share what they know with everyone else doing this, and then that knowledge is embedded in the devices and services that we use all the time. So, I'd like to see some of those protections enacted in the devices we use every day, particularly our phones, and I'd like to see those protections embedded in the services in the cloud of th”

“It looks like the most effective way to stop scams are to prevent the approaches from reaching people. That means intelligence gathering and sharing. For example, misspelled domain names that look like the real thing. And it also helps if people with experience in the moment can share ranges of IP addresses used by scammers. Those and other measurements can be used as signals of scam approaches. Those can be shared a”

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