John Gable, CEO and co-founder of AllSides, will speak at the upcoming 2025 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City, joining an important conversation on: “The New Gatekeepers: Social Media, AI, and the Power to Shape Truth.”
This high-level panel will explore how emerging technologies (and the platforms that control them) are reshaping information ecosystems, influencing public opinion, and altering the foundations of democracy itself.
The 2025 Concordia Annual Summit will take place in New York City from September 21–24, bringing together top voices from business, government, civil society, and media. Tickets are available now – Learn more and register here.
John will join Julie Scelfo, founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA), Sophie Schmidt of Rest of World and Jason Dean of The Washington Post.
This conversation could not be more timely. For decades, editorial boards and newsroom standards served as the de facto gatekeepers of public discourse. While today’s news media has abandoned many traditional standards of balance and fairness, its impact has dropped. Today, that role has been mostly replaced by social media algorithms, and now AI systems that often do not operate for the benefit of society.
What we see, what we believe, and how we vote is increasingly shaped by technologies we don’t fully understand, built by institutions we don’t fully trust that are driven by toxic business models.
This year’s summit emphasizes the themes of Democracy, Security & Geopolitical Risk and Innovative Technology. At the intersection of those themes lies a simple but critical question: Who controls what we believe to be true? And, the question that John most wants to address: What can we do about it now?
As global tensions rise and trust erodes, the ability to access clear, contextual, and balanced information becomes not just a civic necessity — but a matter of national and global security.
