Politico October 1, 2025
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Joe Biden’s former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is stepping back into the limelight on one of his signature issues: youth online safety, our POLITICO colleagues in California scooped.
Common Sense Media has named Murthy to its board of directors, a post that could make the surgeon general a leading face in the San Francisco-based nonprofit’s national and international campaigns to put kid-focused controls on AI and social media.
“We want him to be a public spokesperson on everything from the bills that are sitting on [Newsom’s] desk right now to all sorts of other stuff related to AI and public health,” Common Sense Media founder and CEO Jim Steyer said in an interview. “He can pick up the...
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