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

Author: Emma Lembke, Director of GenZ Advocacy, The Sustainable Media Center Maria Ressa, on stage at DLD in Munich On January 15, 2026, I sat in the back of a packed conference audience at DLD26 in Munich, awaiting the remarks of the anti-tech titan, Maria Ressa. The conference, populated with representatives of the most powerful technology giants of

Darren Walker Joins Anonymous Content When Darren Walker stepped down from the Ford Foundation after twelve years, he left one of the most powerful jobs in global philanthropy. He oversaw close to a billion dollars in annual grantmaking, influenced how major institutions approached inequality and democracy, and became one of the field’s most recognizable public figures.

Raffi Krikorian doesn’t pull any punches: “We are renting our intelligence from a handful of companies.” That was Krikorian last week in Munich at DLD (Digital-Life-Design), Europe’s leading innovation conference where tech executives, policymakers, and media leaders gather to debate digital power. And he wasn’t easing into the conversation. Krikorian is not offering hot takes

For decades, video has changed how we understand critical moments in public life. From Rodney King to George Floyd, from dashboard cameras to bystander phones, recorded images have often brought clarity where official accounts were murky or missing. But video on its own does not tell a complete story. It can show the moment when an