Dr Al Pinkerton talks about the effect of social media in the UK & US elections
Dr Alasdair Pinkerton, a senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, a
Geopolitics expert and an advisor to 10 Downing Street on the
Commonwealth. His future-looking PhD research explores the issues
of ‘Brexit’ and ‘heritage’, and the implications for the UK’s
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Sam Sethi talks with Dr Alasdair Pinkerton and co-host Matt
Hodges-Long about the recent UK general election where Alasdair
stood in Surrey Heath as the PPC (Parliamentary Prospective
Candidate) for the Liberal Democrats.
Despite losing to Mr Gove, they managed to use social media to
crowdfund £25k and increased the LibDem vote by 16%.
We talked about the potential negative effect social media will
have in the 2020 US election now that Mark Zuckerberg has decided
not to fact check political ads.
We also talked about the potential scenarios in a post-brexit
Boris world given Alasdair’s PhD research work on ‘Global
Britain’.
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