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Fighting Back with Data

“Without facts we don’t have truth, without truth we don’t have trust and without any of these three, democracy is dead as we know it,” warns Maria Ressa, CEO of…
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Creating Relevance: How Brands Add Value

All companies have a brand whether they want one or not. So how can brands remain relevant in times of volatility and uncertainty? In this discussion, Margit Wennmachers (Andreessen Horowitz)…
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Truth Decay and the Technology Threat

Tristan Harris, Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, speaks with Financial Times journalist Rana Foroohar about digital media, democracy and the loss of trust. Fake news can inflict lasting…
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Hunting Deepfakes

Giorgio Partini (Deeptrace, now Sensity) and Alex van Someren (Armadeus Capital) discuss how artificial intelligence is abused for the creation of “deepfakes“. The availability of images online has created the ability…
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New Rules for the Internet

Journalist Tanit Koch and Facebook’s VP of Communications, Nick Clegg, discuss Facebook’s measures to protect the U.S. 2020 election and monitor the spread of misinformation. “It is now possible for campaigns,…
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Fashion Star About You: Making Online Shopping “Fun and Inspirational”

Combining social media and e-commerce has made Germany’s fashion retailer AboutYou one of the fastest-growing startups in Europe. Co-Founder Tarek Müller explains the secret of his company’s success.
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Responsible technology: “A New Era of Leaders Will Take Us There”

Winners in the digital economy benefit from network effects and their own popularity, as user growth tends to attract additional users, fueling further growth. In his bestseller The Four, author and…
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Two Elephants in the Room

Four powerful women on the stage at DLD Munich 18: Kara Swisher (ReCode) moderated a passionate and intelligent debate between Miriam Meckel (Wirtschaftswoche), Hilary Rosen (CNN) and journalist Megan Murphy.…
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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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“A credible source is not defined by its popularity”

Art, culture and design are always important topics at DLD. This year co-founder Steffi Czerny was very happy to welcome Hito Steyerl. The German filmmaker, visual artist, writer and innovator of the essay…
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Joanna Shields, (WeProtect Global Alliance), author Ece Temelkuran and Kenneth Cukier, (The Economist) on stage at the DLD Munich Conference 2025.

How to Reclaim Humanity from Tech

The complex relationship between technology, society, and capitalism takes center stage at this engrossing DLD25 conversation between best-selling author Ece Temelkuran and House of Lords member Joanna Shields (WeProtect Global Alliance), moderated by Kenneth Cukier of The Economist. Cukier opens with the...
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Kurt Moser, Lightcatcher, DLD talk

Close Your Eyes & Learn to See

In the digital age, photography has been democratized and made accessible to nearly everyone. In this talk, photographer Kurt Moser speaks to journalist Karl Hoffmann about his “Lightcatcher” project – an effort to slow down photography by reverting to a technique that...
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