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Misinformation & Trust in Institutions with the Concordia Leadership Council

SpeakerS:

H.E. Jorge Quiroga, Former President, Plurinational State of Bolivia; Concordia Leadership Council Member
H.E. Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera, Former President, Republic of Uruguay; Concordia Leadership Council Member
Hanne Dalmut, Senior Director of Partnerships, Concordia

Key takeaways & next steps:

  • Mis- and disinformation can severely disrupt the democratic system because they falsely inform citizens. There are three main institutions that information manipulation continues to impact by destroying trust: trade, financing, and democracy.
  • Latin America has focused on trade relations with China because the U.S. feels inaccessible, in terms of creating trade agreements.
  • A call to action from policymakers in the U.S. is necessary to address the threats to democracy currently being faced in various parts of Latin America, with a particular respect to autocracies in the region.

“Most importantly, misinformation and disinformation is not only about the challenges posed, but about the solutions that are out there through cross-sector collaboration.”

 

Hanne Dalmut, Senior Director of Partnerships, Concordia

“The U.S. is not open for business because misinformation led to a point where we lost the sweet spot to form trade agreements.”

 
H.E. Jorge Quiroga, Former President, Plurinational State of Bolivia; Concordia Leadership Council Member

“As a former politician, I see how much misinformation can distort the images of reality and through that, in a bad sense, the opinion of the people.”

 
H.E. Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera, Former President, Republic of Uruguay; Concordia Leadership Council Member