Emanuel Maiberg has spent the better part of a decade leading the most dynamic team in the news business, breaking massive stories that were picked up by the biggest publishers in the world and changing the way we talk about technology. Exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers, Emanuel is an expert on the way real people use AI, nonconsensual content, obscure internet communities, and the way people use technology in unexpected ways.

Before co-founding 404 Media, Emanuel Maiberg spent the better part of a decade leading the most dynamic team in the news business at VICE’s technology site, Motherboard, breaking massive stories that were picked up by the biggest publishers in the world and changing the way we talk about technology. He was nominated for the Writers Guild award for his story on Pornhub’s role in popularizing a studio accused of sex trafficking, and won the Electronic Freedom Foundation’s Award for Fearless Journalism along with his 404 Media co-founders.

He recently uncovered Microsoft’s tool was used to create the widely viewed nonconsensual content of Taylor Swift, how an AI platform knowingly helped generate child abuse material, and how AI-generated content has broken Google products the internet has relied on for years.