Truth 1: Attention is the real extractive industry

Truth 2: AI did not create the crisis — it exposed it

Truth 3: Schools moved faster than governments

Truth 4: Courts, not Congress, became the engine of accountability

Truth 5: Gen Z stopped waiting to be protected

Where this leaves us

Taken together, these truths point to something larger: The crisis we are living through is not primarily about misinformation, AI, or bad actors. It is about architecture.

We built systems that reward speed over reflection, scale over responsibility, and amplification over accountability.

Predictably, those systems failed us. 2025 was the year it became harder to deny that reality.

The next phase is not about debunking lies faster or banning one more feature. It is about redesigning the spaces where belief is formed, attention is traded, and trust is either earned or destroyed. That work is slower than outrage and harder than innovation theater.

Truth did not disappear. We buried it under systems that could not support it.

Now the question is simple: Do we want systems that support truth, or don’t we?