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Anne Applebaum

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Anne Applebaum delivered a keynote titled The European Moment at Judenplatz in Vienna on May 13, following a series of high-profile warnings she issued in Berlin regarding the weaponization of information by autocrats.

On The Diary Of A CEO, Applebaum analyzed the internal erosion of democratic values, noting that, "there are some members of that community who have become illiberal or anti-democratic for exactly that reason." Her analysis focuses on the transition from traditional political discourse to a landscape dominated by digital manipulation.

Expanding on these technological threats, Applebaum warned that, "there is a danger that we go down a road in which, especially as AI develops and we get more and more of our information online, that we lose touch with reality." While her recent Atlantic dispatches on Moscow and Kari Lake lean into specific geopolitical actors, her podcast commentary remains focused on the structural fragility of the information ecosystem itself.

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Steven Bartlettneutralfrom “Why History Keeps Repeating”

A historian and journalist who studies the history of the Soviet Union and the modern rise of authoritarianism.

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Anne Applebaumneutralfrom “How Democracies Defend Themselves”

Discusses the shift toward illiberalism among members of democratic communities.

“people want to live in a democracy where everybody gets a vote and wealth is supposed to be distributed more evenly? There are some members of that community who have become illiberal or anti-democratic for exactly that reason.”

Anne Applebaumneutralfrom “How Algorithms Control Your Reality”

Warns about the potential for AI to cause a loss of touch with reality.

“'Cause I mean, there is a danger that we go down a road in which, especially as AI develops and we get more and more of our information online, that we lose touch with reality.”

Anne Applebaumneutralfrom “What Regime Change Really Feels Like”

Author and historian who documents contemporary political shifts and democratic decline.

“I wrote the gulag book. I wrote a history of the Ukrainian famine. I wrote a book a- this is a, this is a book about how the Soviet Union took over Eastern Europe, how they sort of did regime change in Eastern Europe after the war. You know, they're about thin…”