Healing our troubled information ecosystem | Melissa Fleming | Nobel Prize Summit 2023

Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations, and her speech on how ‘social media is being weaponised to provoke the worst in human nature.’ She speaks about how governments are using free digital tools to spread propaganda and how the UN is responding by pushing big tech on multiple fronts to bring balance to our information systems. About Nobel Prize Summit 2023: How can we build trust in truth, facts and scientific evidence so that we can create a hopeful future for all? Misinformation is eroding our trust in science and runs the risk of becoming one of the greatest threats to our society today. This year’s Nobel Prize Summit which brought together laureates, leading experts and the public in a conversation on how we can combat misinformation, restore trust in science and create a hopeful future. Learn more at Nobel Prize Summit in partnership with National Academy of Sciences. Lead partner Knight Foundation. Contributing partner Luminate. Supporting organisations Annenberg Public Policy Center University of Pennsylvania, Rita Allen Foundation. Nobel International Partners 3M, ABB, Capgemini, EQT, H2green steel, Scania. Special thanks to: Alliance4Europe, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Deliberative Democracy Lab at the Stanford Center on Democracy; Development and the Rule of Law, Digital Public Goods Alliance, Embassy of Sweden to the U.S., Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, International Panel on the Information Environment, Media Literacy Now, National Science Foundation, PeaceTech Lab, SkillsVR, S&R Evermay, Smithsonian Science Education Center, Stockholm Resilience Center/Beijer Institute, The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, The Mercury Project, Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, United Nations Development Programme, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Wikimedia DC. #NobelPrizeSummit