Amidst panels and workshops on topics like tools and techniques for circumventing censorship, the evolution of social media regulation, and how to address disinformation and anti-democracy narratives, participants also grappled with the new reality of a United States government that has abruptly ended support for pro-democracy efforts around the world and appears set to abandon its post-World War II leadership position in international affairs in favor of a “Great Powers” approach that regards rules and multilateral institutions as distractions.