Diana Burley, Executive Director and Chair of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection and Professor of Human and Organizational Learning at George Washington University, tackles the topic of “New Technology and Social Media: Good or Bad for Free Speech” at the National Conference on the First Amendment Sunday Oct. 21, 2018, at Duquesne University’s Power Center Ballroom Uptown. ÒWe have to remember what cyber security is about at itÕs core. ItÕs three things. Confidentiality, which is privacy. Integrity, which is whether weÕre talking about accuracy. Availability, when people can get the information they want to get. So when we talk about the spread of information on social media, itÕs not just extreme views that we need to think about. But ItÕs also the spread of misinformation or disinformation. Because that spread of information can cause us to question the integrity of the data, of the information that we see. Not just because it spread so rapidly, but also because increasingly we have applications that are based off of crowd sourced information. Not from a single source, but from a variety of sources, from everyone in this audience. And so if that data, if that app, if the result that your getting is based off of crowd sourced information and everyone in this room has provided information that is based off of false, or erroneous information, than all of a sudden we have a result that is inaccurate, but we donÕt have a way of controlling that. So we have to think very critically about. how do we balance the rights of individuals to communicate as they have the right to do, but also recognizing that the way the technology is advancing, it is fundamentally shaped by that information and that causes us to question the security of the technology and the results and such that we are getting and then acting upon.Ó (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)