Carlo Cabanilla is a first-generation Filipino American immigrant, tech entrepreneur, and community organizer who brings a rare combination of technical expertise and grassroots experience to understanding misinformation campaigns. As co-founder of Bahala, a community-building organization, Carlo works to create spaces where people can come together across differences to address shared challenges, including the growing threat of the misinformation landscape.

Growing up with deep curiosity of the early promises of the Internet, Carlo has witnessed misinformation's evolution from the early trust systems to today's sophisticated bot farm operations.

His technical background allows him to demonstrate the mechanics of bot farms and misinformation-as-a-service platforms, while his work laying the foundation of a hypergrowth cloud startup, Datadog taught him how to scale knowledge sharing to people of myriad backgrounds and levels of expertise.

Through Bahala, Carlo has developed practical approaches for rebuilding community trust and connection, the antidote to the isolation that makes people vulnerable to misinformation. He combines deep technical knowledge of how misinformation spreads with proven community organizing skills to offer both individual verification techniques and collective solutions for countering truth decay.

Carlo brings a unique perspective to conversations about truth decay, drawing from his current work in community organizing and his deep commitment to creating inclusive spaces where fact-based dialogue can flourish. Through Bahala, he has facilitated numerous community conversations on challenging topics, emphasizing human connection and shared experiences in building resilience against misinformation. His approach focuses on building bridges, breaking down information silos, and meeting people where they are in their belief systems. His central hypothesis is that countering misinformation requires not just better information, but stronger communities where people feel heard, valued, and connected to one another.