Ed Bice | Meedan | 2024 Skoll Award Acceptance Speech

Ed is the CEO and Board Chair of the global technology non-profit Meedan. Since founding Meedan in 2006, he has devoted his professional energies to improving the Internet. Ed has led strategy and project definition for open-source software development efforts in social computing. Meedan has developed human-in-the-loop AI chatbots enabling journalists, scientists, and community leaders to provide knowledge services within closed messaging environments.
Ed is a member of the Partnership on AI’s AI and Media Integrity Steering Committee and the Logically Facts Advisory Board. Recent projects include the #FactsFirstPH initiative with Rappler, Confirma 2022 Brazil Election monitoring project with Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Twitter’s media context program, the COVID-19 Vaccine Media Hub (Google), and WhatsApp’s 3PFC (third party fact-checking) program.
Surging disinformation and the rise of generative AI is creating a perfect storm that threatens the integrity of democratic processes worldwide. These forces are leading to the spread of false narratives, undermining public trust, and distorting informed decision-making.
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About the Skoll Awards For Social Innovation
The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Innovation each year to a select group of social innovators whose work targets the root causes of societal problems that are ripe for transformational social change.
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