“We are in the last two minutes of this game of democracy.”
Nobel laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa doesn’t mince words.
Because our informational ecosystems favor incentive structures that reward the spread of lies over broadcasting truths, she explains, “If you don’t have facts, you can’t have truths; if you don’t have truths, you can’t have trust.”
“You know the Facebook’s status ‘It’s complicated?’” Parag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap asked the 2,500-plus audience of CEOs gathered in New York City for YPO’s flagship EDGE event. “Well, if planet Earth had a Facebook status, I don’t think ‘It’s complicated’ would suffice.”
YPO EDGE 2022 in New York City, kicked off with a strong mic drop, when London-based international journalist and EDGE Co-host Maithreyi Seetharaman asked former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, “If you had one sentence to offer as a tip to leaders in crisis, what would it be?”
