![Kirkpatrick David Aif2019](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/2432282e-5c95-4783-a2eb-a352825ed2e7/Kirkpatrick_David_AIF2019.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C800%2C800&w=290)
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor in Chief, Techonomy Media
David Kirkpatrick is a journalist and the founder and editor in chief of Techonomy Media, a media and conference company whose 2019 theme is “Collaboration for Responsible Growth.” He is the author of the best-selling book, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. It was at the 2016 Techonomy conference that Mark Zuckerberg said it was a “crazy idea” that fake news affected the US presidential election. Kirkpatrick previously spent 25 years at Fortune, where he founded and hosted its Brainstorm and Brainstorm Tech conferences. He is a contributing editor on Bloomberg Television and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Previously
![Info Wars: The Global Fight for Truth](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullaec84117-da69-4130-b491-d642442e1efa/48137852192_83ba330fa7_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C12%2C7952%2C4478&w=400)
The public optimism that came with the launch of social media a decade ago has settled into a wariness that we might instead face a long, grueling daily fight for truth and fa...
![The Internet Era: How Connectivity is Reshaping the World](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null6462e303-865a-44d7-a346-8351c316d971/the_internet_era.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C2555%2C1436&w=400)
The Internet, to date, has been an open system that has enabled ideas to spread across borders, has created transformative new economies, and has helped people connect, create...