The Future of Truth

How Technology Will Save Us from Legacy Media Lies

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | 7:00 pm PST

Over the past five years, the US has seen a remarkable change in its news media. News organizations that once at least wore the façade of neutrality have come out openly as partisan activists. Lockdown, lab leak, BLM, Russiagate and so many other critical issues were approached by the media not with objective fact-gathering in mind, but with a mission of driving drastic, sometimes radical change.

Ashley Rindsberg, the author of the bestselling book The Gray Lady Winked, which shows how the New York Times’ misreporting changed a century of history, believes that the media’s agenda-driven reporting is baked into the DNA of America’s highly centralized media. With 90% of media in the hands of just six mega-companies, the power of the media to shape our very reality has mostly gone unchallenged. Far from the “Fourth Estate,” the media now seems like an offshoot of big government itself.

Through his work as in investigative journalist, Ashley uncovers the mechanisms by which agenda-driven media works—and the dire cost it has on our society, our economy and our lives. His reporting has shown how the mainstream media cooperated with Big Science to cast lab leak as a “conspiracy theory.” He’s taken on ESG and DEI, unveiling the power structures behind these seemingly innocuous acronyms.

In this fascinating talk, Ashley will tell the story of how an innovative new approach to media is emerging from the ashes of centralized, corporate media right before our eyes. Ashley will paint a picture of a rapidly emerging future in which technology-driven innovation is revolutionizing the media as we know it.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:

Ashley Rindsberg is founder and CEO of Bizzline, a startup that lets companies develop and engage audiences around their company news.

He is the author of a bestselling book on the New York Times (The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History), and has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Telegraph and New York Post.

Ashley previously served as Senior Vice President and Editorial Director of a Top 50 New York communications agency. He began his career at Internet Archive after leading a digital archive project for MIT and Cornell University. Born in South Africa, Rindsberg was raised in the US and currently lives in London.