In 2000, Schwartz cofounded clicksafe.com, a porn filter that was approved by the Archdiocese of New York.
[3] The app blocked sites belonging to law scholar and Child Online Protection Act (COPA) testifier Lawrence Lessig's, various pages on the COPA website, the Center for Democracy and Technology, ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the American Family Association.
[4] Despite no journalistic experience, Schwartz became the Editorial Editor at the New York Daily News in the 2000s.
[5] From 2005 to 2010, Schwartz was a partner at Source Communications, a New York public relations agency.
Clearview AI's Hoan Ton-That and Schwartz met at the Manhattan Institute.