This is the first full piece of video content released from last month’s NOVITĀTE conference, which I hosted on November 3, 2023, in Washington, DC

This conversation, titled “EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING: The New Media Landscape”, featured author , Substack Co-Founder , and Renée DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory. It was moderated by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat.

This was a conversation that needed to happen. A key issue of contention was whether or not media companies can “manage” mimesis effectively—and whether they should be in the business of trying to do so at all.

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