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Andrew V. Edwards is an author, technologist, and speaker residing in New York’s Hudson Valley.
He is the author of Digital is Destroying Everything (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 2018) which was translated into Chinese and Turkish. His 2nd book, Army of Liars was published September 3rd, 2024.
Andrew has also written dozens of articles about digital analytics for ClickZ, the world’s largest online source of marketing advice and information.
With the rise of social media disinformation threats, Andrew founded Verity7 to deliver world-class anti-disinformation training and consulting.
Andrew is a Co-founder and Director Emeritus of the Digital Analytics Association. Since 2004, the DAA has been the world’s largest organization devoted to the study of online customer behavior. In the early 1990s, Andrew founded and ran Renaissance Multimedia, one of the first interactive agencies in New York City. He went on to found Technology Leaders, one of the first consulting companies devoted to digital analytics to enterprise clients.
Following up on his groundbreaking book "Digital is Destroying Everything", "Army of Liars" unveils the sinister agenda of an army of liars, the digitally-driven bad actors seeking to destabilize the United States by eroding the very foundations of liberal democracy with a relentless barrage of fabricated narratives and poisonous, digitally promoted misinformation.
He identifies the culprits: social media platforms protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, audience targeting, real-time content recommendation, foreign state actors, and radical factions fueled by hate. Today’s social media has been weaponized by enemies of the United States and hate and discord are now the currency of thousands of anonymous “content providers.”
"Army of Liars" unpacks how we got here, what exactly is wrong with digital enterprise, and how to go about fixing it so that humanity may survive even in an age of artificial intelligence and digital command and control. Should we implement an “engagement tax” on social media platforms and generative AI? These funds could be used to help fight off the worst types of disinformation and to help fund the efforts of content creators whose work has been scraped, stolen, and reconfigured by generative AI and large language models (LLMs).
It’s a safe bet the tech giants won’t want to hear it. "Army of Liars" is designed to help humans not only survive in a digital age but to conquer digital and prosper in an age of truth in media.