Fake News: How We Can Save Ourselves From Disinformation (Eliot Higgins)

Conspiracy theories have flooded the internet in recent years and
a growing number of people are avoiding mainstream news.


Eliot Higgins, founder of the open source investigative
organisation Bellingcat, thinks this is partly down to a lack of
trust in institutions, which is leading to a crisis of democracy
in Britain and elsewhere.


He discusses why we need to spend less time online, improve media
literacy and how Bellingcat has built a community of open source
investigators on Discord.


Eliot also explains how his team tracked down the Russian agents
behind the Salisbury poisonings, took on Putin’s Kremlin and
uncovered what really happened to Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.


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