When Mohammad Momani stepped up to speak at the opening of the “Media and Youth Forum” in Amman, his message was not the usual government address. It was a recognition that the relationship between young people and the media has fundamentally changed. The forum, held as part of the larger “Future of Media and Communication” conference organized by the Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists, brought together journalists, experts, content creators, and young people to think about where media is heading. Momani, who serves as Jordan’s Government Communication Minister and Government Spokesperson, made it clear that young people are no…

It was meant to be a moment of shared purpose: researchers, journalists, and digital investigators gathering in Vilnius, Lithuania, to confront one of the most corrosive problems of our age — the quiet, relentless spread of manipulated information across the internet. The conference, called Disinfo2026, was organized by an independent Brussels-based nonprofit and supported by the European Union’s diplomatic service, the European External Action Service. For those arriving in the Lithuanian capital, the event promised a rare opportunity to compare notes across borders, to name the tactics of foreign interference, and to think together about how democracies can defend the…