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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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“Facebook Is Not the Digital Wild West!”
Sunday at DLD Munich started with Elliot Schrage’s for Facebook surprisingly open and self-critical keynote. He is Vice President of Public Policy and Communication at Facebook, where he oversees outreach to governments,…
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Future Digital Policy and Sovereignty
Moderated by Carsten Knop, Editor-in-Chief of digital products at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, this panel brought together Axel Voss, member of the European Parliament; Li Xin, Managing Director at Caixin Global; and Andrew Keen, author of How to Fix the Future. In a...
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Sentient AI: Can We Create Artificial Consciousness?
One of the world’s leading cognitive scientists, Anil Seth (University of Sussex), explores the age-old human fascination with creating artificial versions of ourselves, specifically focusing on the question of whether AI could ever be truly conscious. “For centuries, people have fantasized about...
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