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AI-generated footage, viral misinformation, and the lesson of “Birds Aren’t Real” are reshaping how the world experiences the war around Iran. Right now, if you scroll through social media looking for updates about the war involving Iran, the United States, and Israel, you will see an extraordinary amount of war footage. Missiles streak across night skies. Drone

(image created with AI tools) The messages started showing up in my feed late at night. Friends posting from the Gulf. Someone in Dubai. Another in Abu Dhabi. A colleague working on a project in Riyadh. The tone was the same in each post: urgency mixed with disbelief. “Flights are selling out.” “Does anyone know which airlines are

CNN, Skydance, And Truth In A Polarized Worldby Steven Rosenbaum , Featured Contributor, 88 minutes agosource: imgur.comWalk into an airport lounge in Nairobi. The television is on. The red logo is familiar. The anchor is speaking in English about Washington. A lower third scrolls beneath images of Congress, the White House, a court ruling, a foreign policy crisis.

It’s one thing to talk about platform harm in panels, reports, and headlines. It’s another to sit in a courtroom and watch the story of social media’s impact on young people get translated into legal arguments, evidentiary rules, and sworn testimony. This week, Nicki Petrossi, host of the “Scrolling 2 Death” podcast, had one of

There is a simple truth we keep relearning in moments like this. Change does not begin with a verdict. It does not begin with a headline. It begins with people choosing to show up. Over these long days in Los Angeles, while testimony unfolds inside the courtroom, people from the Sustainable Media Center community have been

For years, the harms of social media have lived in reports, leaks, and grieving families’ stories. Now, some of that evidence is finally being pulled into open court. In Los Angeles, Meta is facing the first of a series of bellwether trials in the social media addiction cases. Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony is not just a headline

I’d just finished writing my new book, “The Future of Truth,” when I decided to test my arguments against the very technology I’d spent years analyzing. I sat down with ChatGPT — OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI — and asked a simple question: Does OpenAI know what truth is? What followed was less an interview than an interrogation. And what emerged

On a winter night at P&T Knitwear in NYC, the room was full in the way that tells you something real is about to happen. Not a polite crowd. Not a conference audience waiting to be impressed. A mix of Gen Z organizers, policy folks, creators, technologists, and older allies who showed up because they

When the steering committee gathered 1,000+ people to mark 30 years of Silicon Alley, you could feel something in the room that doesn’t show up in tech origin stories anymore. This wasn’t founder nostalgia. It wasn’t a victory lap for people who got rich and cashed out. It was something harder to name: the people who