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Maria Ressa’s Fight for Democracy in the Digital Age
“A lie told a million times becomes fact”, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa told the DLD audience in 2020. Her fight against disinformation is more important than ever…
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The Incongruity Between Technology and the Social Fabric
Former Google ethicist Tristan Harris co-founded the Center for Humane Technology after realizing how manipulative many social media platforms have become – doing everything to keep users engaged, even if…
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What’s Next, Jimmy?
In his DLD All Stars presentation, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales analyzes the current technology landscape and explains what separates “good tech” from “bad tech” – regarding its influence on society.…
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Never Give Up
Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize 2021, Maria Ressa has become an international symbol of hope and resilience due to her tireless fight for freedom of speech. With her investigative…
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Democracy And the Global Economy
This DLD Sync session brought together two of the most highly regarded thought leaders of the digital world: Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, and…
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Why Covid-19 Highlights the Limits of Capitalism
The pandemic demonstrates why we cannot put a price on everything. Isabell Welpe and Albert Wenger discuss where markets fail, and what alternatives they see.
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Democracy & Free Speech in the Digital Age
What responsibility do social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have when it comes to content moderation, fighting disinformation and protecting democracy? That’s the core subject of this DLD…
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What Are You Adding?
Clara Barnett of the UK’s Government Digital Service was the inspiration for the DLD Munich 2020 motto, “What Are You Adding?” She opened the conference with an analysis of the…
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Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
“To what extent should our lives be governed by powerful digital systems, and on what terms?”, asks Jamie Susskind in this thought-provoking DLD20 talk. The author and researcher argues that…
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Tomorrows vs. Yesterdays
“We thought the Internet, when it was born, would create democracy and wisdom and freedom”, author Andrew Keen observes in his DLD20 talk. “The opposite is true.” The world is…
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Now Is the Time To Fix the Future
Andrew Keen is a writer, speaker and entrepreneur. In his latest book, How To Fix The Future, he analyzes the intricate interplay between technology, society and democracy. For this essay,…
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Highlights about Building Community In A Polarized World with Facebook’s Elliot Schrage
Watch Facebook’s Communications Director Eliot Schrage describe what Facebook is doing about community building when the world is becoming increasingly polarized. Here’s the talk he gave at DLD Munich 2018.
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