Laura Bononcini, Public Policy Director, Southern Europe, Facebook: “Facebook has been used to spread misinformation, but it is doing everything possible to deal with this issue”.

Harley Davis, Vice-President, Lab and Decision Management, IBM France: “Making facial-recognition technology more accurate may not be a good thing, especially when this technology falls into the hands of repressive regimes seeking out dissidents, for example”.

Donna Chu, Chinese University of Hong Kong: “It is very time consuming and expensive for any ordinary person. Sooner or later people would think: oh, it does not matter. Are people losing interest?”.

Jun Takao, Director General, General Bureau for Europe, Japan Broadcasting Corporation: “Citizen journalism is an added value for information sharing”.