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Lwe move very fast. It’s Monday lunchtime when Jennifer Siebel Newsom walks into the Guardian’s Washington office, a few blocks from the White House, to be asked to promote her new film. Less than two hours later her husband, California Governor Gavin Newsom, announces that the family is being investigated by the Department of Justice.
One group of the investigation is looking at the taxes of Siebel Newsom and the California Partners Project, a non-profit organization that she founded to make it a non-profit. received a total of $4.3m at the request of her husband. Gavin Newsom criticized this as “personal revenge” led by Donald Trump because the governor is considering running for US President.
Even before the news, Siebel Newsom’s verdict on Trump is fading. “I feel sorry for our country right now because when the father, the leader, the president is a broken, hurtful, hurtful example, everyone is being abused,” he says, more sad than angry. “Everyone’s opinion is not how they can be – they should be.”
Siebel Newsom, who turns 52 this week, is not a politician, but she has done things that are abhorrent to the current president. At Conservation International, she helped women in Africa and Latin America start conservation businesses. After making it big in Hollywood as an actress, she started her own film production company to highlight women’s issues.
His 2011 documentary, Representing Missexplored the misrepresentation of women and girls and the knocking on of positions of power and influence in the US. He went on to found the Representation Project, a non-profit that pushes for cultural change. Her husband became governor of California in 2019, but Siebel Newsom has rejected the traditional title of “first lady” in favor of “first mate”.
He remembers that: “I have been working all the time. I have been taking care of money. We do not pay our first mothers. This is my love. This is my work. It is my skill. It is my skill. It is also my motivation and it focuses on the work I am doing as the first friend. I try to put mothers and children between mothers and children and make sure that I live between mothers and children. California Families are not only surviving but thriving and I feel good about that.“
Siebel Newsom’s new video is Miss Standing: Get upa systematic study of the culture against women and girls in the era of social networks algorithms and AI deepfakes, the rise of the manosphere and “trad women”, and, of course, the negative influence of Trump, who boasted of the tape that caught women with their reproductive organs and was found guilty of sexism.
Siebel Newsom has the chance to attract big names: former secretary of state Hillary Clintoncongresswoman Nancy Pelosi, senator Amy Klobuchar, Jameela Jamil, and journalists Gretchen Carlson and Katie Couric are among the people speaking in the film.
Warns of mental health problems: 53% of teenage girls reported feeling persistently sad and hopeless in a 2023 survey Centers for Disease Control and Preventionand 27% of high school girls seriously considered suicide. Whereas depression was associated with girls aged 16 or 17, it now affects them at 11, 12 and 13 years old.
Much of this is directly tied to the advent of the “like” and “share” buttons that provide a constant source of social comparison and non-existence. Miss Standing: Get up he cited internal documents leaked by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, alleging that the tech company had clearly studied the neurobiology of children in order to take advantage of their problems.
Siebel Newsom is relentless in its analysis. “AI and social media are tools, not only to challenge and devalue women and girls but to disenfranchise women and girls,” she says. “It’s destroying our mental health, it’s destroying our safety and it’s destroying our energy, and it’s happening at an unprecedented rate and it’s reaching younger and younger girls.
The platforms have strongly resisted accountability, protected by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives them full protection from what users post. The result is what the documentary calls “the democratization of deepfake porn”. AI tools, such as Elon Musk‘s Grok, is being used by high school boys to make pornographic images of 12- and 13-year-old girls.
The document describes the cost of a person trying to violate these rules. It tells the story of a girl named Alexandra “Owl” Hinkswho was constantly harassed online with sexual demands from boys at his school, which led him to commit suicide.
As the husband of Gavin NewsomThe so-called “Gov”, Siebel Newsom is in the belly of the Silicon Valley monster. “I’m a big believer that you can have security technology and I’ve talked to the CEO of Pinterest (Bill Ready), for example, who’s a leader in a good way to understand that when you provide security, you force innovation and creativity, and that’s what the Gov has been trying to do with some of our laws around AI.
For Siebel Newsom, raising four children in the shadow of Silicon Valley required drawing boundaries. As the UK announces a ban on social media for children under the age of 16, it is signaling that it wants California and the US to follow suit.
“I put off giving my kids cell phones until they were 14, and my oldest two are 14 and up, and I feel like I’m almost done. I’m like, ‘Well, your mom knows what’s on the other side!’
But if we adults struggle to put our phones down, how can we expect children whose brains are not properly formed to put them down? Especially children who are different learners, or who have bad habits, or who have ADHD.
The algorithmic radicalization of young men – the so-called “manosphere” led by figures such as Andrew Tate – is an important part of repetition. The documentary draws a straight line from all the violence of Internet porn to actual support for women. Boys are taught by platforms to believe that women are objects, which leads to violence and abuse.
This cultural decay inevitably bleeds into the political arena. For women entering public life, the “glass ceiling” has been replaced by what one male subject in the film’s prologue eloquently describes as “a brick ceiling”. The video shows that 40% of women around the world – and 80% of women in politics – have experienced harassment, rape and death threats for trying to suppress their voices.
At the same time, he says, men have found a way to oppose women, and reclaim submission as a good option. Social media algorithms are now very influential the “caretaker” group.encourage girls to give up their economic independence and return to traditional and submissive roles.
“For the tradwie scene, it’s like, you can be a mom, you can cook good food and you can live on a farm and you can wear beautiful dresses. and I want to make sure that these women have a voice, not only at home but in society which is not only about buying or working for men but also making women have more to give to the world outside the home – a power that has been missing from the decision making tables. “
He also said: “As 51 percent of the people who are born 100 percent of the people, we have the responsibility to reform the culture and reform the policies and reform the culture.” and person against or.”
The documentary features the late Charlie Kirk’s band, Turning Point USAencourage girls to get married, drop out of education and stop being independent. Siebel Newsom explains: “That is harmful to women and girls.
The alliance between this kind of political justice and the billionaires of Silicon Valley has been inescapable. Musk was the biggest donor to Trump’s 2024 election campaign and joined other tech giants at the president’s inauguration. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was one of the industry giants to watch Sunday’s Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Trump’s 80th birthday show at the White House.
Siebel Newsom put it bluntly: “There are some good people in engineering and there are some people who are still good.” But it is disappointing when people you know kiss someone who is very harmful, not only to our economy, but also to our democracy and to our people.”
Trump won two of the three elections – all against women: Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024. “I believe that gender played a big part in their defeat,” says Siebel Newsom, before adding a laugh: “And Russian interference.”
He continues: “As we explore in the document, women are essential for a prosperous democracy, and when our foreign enemies see a powerful woman rising, it is dangerous because that is what they are trying to reduce and capture because it is part of their regime to maintain their power and status quo.
“Our democracy would be better if we had more women in leadership, time, time. I’m not saying that this should be 100% women. Our democracy, I believe, will be better if we really represent the population.”
Last year, Michelle Obama, the former first lady, chose this America is “not ready” for a female president. It is a difficult question for Siebel Newsom, whose husband may be the one who rejects a woman – like Harris or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – the keys to the White House in 2028.
“Obviously I’d like to think that America is ready for a female president,” she insists. “I’m doing my part to show girls and women that they can be like that and to support the process. We just need to find more female leadership and femininity is in all of us, right?”
Siebel Newsom paused. Half a dozen seconds. He resumes: “I mean, it will happen. It will happen in our lifetime, but we have to restore our country in the right way. The first step is the 2026 midterms and then ’28 and hopefully right the train and do everything we can to encourage and support women, children and families and make sure that the American dream is alive, not just a few people who are alive.”
