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Very sharp team to put out some of these fires. _ he seems capable of doing that. will he do it in time before twitter effectively collapses? i dont know. and could he do it to make it more profitable, to make the company more profitable and less of an echo chamber? is that in any chance of that survival thats succeeding? i dont think that is a short i or medium term likelihood, no. well, im afraid that is all we have time for today. thank you so much to all my guests, peter kafka, a leading tec...

So let me bring ben strick in then to tell us, what did you uncover? so i think its a pretty interesting question. what we found was quite counter to what the narratives were online. so there were two specific videos that we actually focused on at the start. one video, which was primarily posted in spanish and arabic with language text, shows a lot of people heading towards the border with the idea of, hey, lets defend our borders. the other video shows lots of bodies on the ground, and thats th...

Voices speak and we will sort it out, and more speeches better than less speech. if you give elon musk a lie detector, thatis give elon musk a lie detector, that is what he truly does believe, but i dont think he has thought through any of this. well, were going to come back to all of that and more later when it comes to twitter. but i want to turn to a story from africa eye that was published this week. africa eye is a bbc team that has been pioneering award winning journalism, often initially ...

Of events was that people were saying people were falling off the fences and the crush is what killed most of the people. and so thats what the authorities were saying. but actually, our evidence and our videos and the testimony combined shows that, yes, lots of people died in those events. but actually, the core is there was no care. theres no medical care afterwards. so these people are being held on the floor for hours and hours and hours being detained, handcuffed behind their back. and many...

Illjust be personally sad. i really, like ben, who has really crucial reasons to be, of course, on this platform as a law professor, the kind of communities that we also create computer scientists, you know, the ways in which we reach folks in our work. for me as an intimate privacy advocate, it will make me really sad. peter kafka, host of recode media. i saw a wry smile on your face at that point. oh, im not sure where the wry smile came in. i guess one thing i would emphasise is, is thinking ...

Online assault. so my first book was about cyberstalking. and it is it is impossible to speak in the face of your nude photos being posted online. the suggestion youre a prostitute and where you can be located, rape threats and death threats. so, you know, iworry that, what do they say, what he has wrought, is going to be a whole lot of leaving of twitter, including advertisers. and ill be sad, you know, illjust be personally sad. i really, like ben, who has really crucial reasons to be, of cour...

Were they in grey territory? so mixed spanish or moroccan territory? other things we were able to further identify, whichjust goes to show how much strength there is online and how much extra footage. and so this is things like social media profile, satellite images, that sort of thing that youre looking at? exactly. social media profiles, but mainly photos and videos uploaded from people living in morocco, living in spain. so in melilla, that little enclave and things like that. and thats the m...

From africa eye that was published this week. africa eye is a bbc team that has been pioneering award winning journalism, often initially from information found online. and two of the team are here. you heard ben strick at the beginning, an investigative journalist who worked on the latest story. and suzanne is the director and editor. now, back injune, shocking video started circulating on social media showing moroccan and spanish border guards in violent clashes with african migrants. 24 peopl...

In morocco, living in spain. so in melilla, that little enclave and things like that. and thats the most importantjuice for us is those photos and videos are so core to what we do. 0k. well, suzanne, i mean, africa eye is celebrated for its open source investigations, the kind that ben and you have just been involved with, anatomy of a killing, for example, in 2018, which examined the shooting of women and children that the government in cameroon had called fake news. now, this latest is called ...

Thats the core of the problem is that old school media organizations or old school way of doing journalism means youve got a reporter on the ground who who you can trust to tell you whats happened. and with social media giving everybody a camera in their pocket, all of a sudden theres theres theres people filming things everywhere. but again, theres the same problem that a journalist normally covers. who do you trust? what can you say? and the bbc as a news organization doesnt always succeed in ...