#Connexions at UT Austin

Amy Leff, Assistant Professor of the LBJ School: Facebook has invested at least $13 billion in online safety. There are brilliant, passionate, committed people in these tech companies, and they are trying to find solutions for these problems. But it is not enough. #Connexions24

@LeeCMcIntyre, Senior Advisor for Trust in Science at The Aspen Institute, addressed strategic denialism: “There isn’t a lack of facts, there’s a lack of trust. People are selective deniers because it is in someone's interest for them to be deniers.” #Connexions24

Our third panel of day at #Connexions24 with Amy Leff, Justin Dyer, @LeeCMcIntyre, and Sherri Greenberg (@srgreenberg), is tackling how misinformation, disinformation and denialism are to blame for dwindling levels of public trust in governing institutions.

Jeff Trimble, Former Acting President RFE/RL, posed the provocation: “Can we stick with the idea that the truth over the long haul will win in the information space, or are we in territory that’s too complicated for that?” #Connexions24

Adam Sikes (@Adam_R_Sikes), Former Intelligence Officer: “Covert action has to be an integral part of foreign policy. With economic interdependency and global information flow, there must be a “whole of government approach” - Nothing can be done in isolation. #Connexions24