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[Vitor] : En cambio, Leão ya no cree tan tajantemente en esa frase de «good news, no news». Hoy en día enseña ética en una universidad de periodismo y habla de esto con sus alumnos.

[Leão] : Hoy estoy convencido de que maximizamos las malas noticias en el periodismo Y esto hay que cambiar.

[Vitor] : Piensa que, de algún modo, los medios sobredimensio... See more

So instead of focusing all our energy on how to fight disinformation, mitigate online harms, and combat digital extremism, we need to focus on creating a positive vision of what we want and how to get there.

I felt a deep peace after each conversation. Not because of anything said, but because the conversation itself was the answer. It’s hard to be cynical when you’re connecting with someone.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you wi... See more

“El distanciamiento ideológico entre partidos políticos (polarización ideológica) promueve el escepticismo y la desafección democrática entre la ciudadanía (polarización afectiva). La polarización dificulta el consenso político en temas tan relevantes como la convivencia territorial, la inmigración, la igualdad de género o el cambio climático. El r... See more

A technologically advanced culture cannot flourish without getting better at anticipating the future. That’s why science fiction matters. That’s why scenario planning matters. That’s why complex software simulations that enable us to forecast things like climate change on the scale of decades matter.

And here I want to bring us back to another idea... See more

“Terror can only rule over men who are isolated against each other,” Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism.

We now live in a digital age, in which information becomes fluid and variable. All that was solid has melted into air. In the print world, getting your facts right was about competence and care; now what the facts are depends on what date you access a website, or which website you visit. The nature of information has changed irreversibly.