Truth Matters: How to Identify and Combat Disinformation in Social Media and Beyond 

 The Greenfield Public Library welcomes Andrew V. Edwards on Wednesday, September 4 at 6:30 pm in our Community Meeting Room for a talk on Disinformation in Social Media.

Author and Futurist Andrew Edwards hosts a lively discussion about disinformation, the ills of social media and the challenges presented by AI. Do we pay too high a price for instant connectivity? Do social media companies have a right to make trillions while destroying civil society as a byproduct? Can government regulation help turn off the firehose of social media discord? Edwards offers analysis and solutions on these key topics.

Andrew Edwards is an author, public speaker, technologist, and entrepreneur residing in New York’s Hudson Valley. He is a Co-founder and Director Emeritus of the Digital Analytics Association. He is the author of Digital is Destroying Everything: What the Tech Giants Won’t Tell You about How Robots, Big Data, and Algorithms Are Radically Remaking Your Future (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015, 2018) and Army of Liars: How Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence Are Corrupting and Endangering Humanity (2024). He has written extensively about digital marketing and social media for ClickZ and Substack. In 2023 he founded Verity7, an anti-disinformation training and consulting organization.

This program, generously sponsored by the Friends of the Greenfield Public Library, is free and open to the public.