Commentary
In a recent address to the World Economic Forum (WEF), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, citing the WEF’s annual “global risk report,” pointed to “misinformation and disinformation” as the greatest risks facing the global business community at this time. These risks are “serious,” in her view, “because they limit our ability to tackle the big global challenges we are facing”—climate, demographics and technological changes, and “spiralling regional conflicts and intensified geopolitical competition.”
