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This must be untrue. do you think that that plays into the way that this particular story was dismissed? i think it definitely plays into it. i mean, i know i myself when i began looking at it, was very nervous for that precise reason, i thought it probably was conspiracy theory, and the more i looked, the more i became convinced that there was a theory that deserved to be examined and that it was wrong that it was being stifled and silenced, and i think if a fact checking organisation, as you s...

We are going to be talking about that and more a bit later with claire milne who is the acting editor of full fact, the uk fact=checking organisation and ian birrell who is a contributing editor of the mail on sunday. lets start with that pegasus project which has been making headlines all week. laurent richard is the director and founder of forbidden stories, the ngo which got hold of this leaked list of 50,000 possible targets for surveillance, and paul lewis is head of investigations at the g...

About that and more a bit later with claire milne who is the acting editor of full fact, the uk fact=checking organisation and ian birrell who is a contributing editor of the mail on sunday. lets start with that pegasus project which has been making headlines all week. laurent richard is the director and founder of forbidden stories, the ngo which got hold of this leaked list of 50,000 possible targets for surveillance, and paul lewis is head of investigations at the guardian which is one of the...

I think it definitely plays into it. i mean, i know i myself when i began looking at it, was very nervous for that precise reason, i thought it probably was conspiracy theory, and the more i looked, the more i became convinced that there was a theory that deserved to be examined and that it was wrong that it was being stifled and silenced, and i think if a fact checking organisation, as you say, didnt look at the evidence and simply went with the idea that it was conspiracy theory, itjust shows ...

We are joined by some of thejournalists behind it. also today, the role that specialist fact checkers play in journalism. in the last 18 months, this has been a story of what is and is not true. some stories of course are easy to disprove. the vaccine does not contain a microchip from bill gates, but how do we navigate the grey areas? donald trumps claim for example that covid—i9 could come from a chinese laboratory was widely branded as a conspiracy theory by the media and you could not share...

As you say didnt look at the evidence and simply went with the idea that it was conspiracy theory, itjust shows it is not a valid fact checking organisation because there are no facts to say that the laboratory leak is wrong, just as there are no facts to say we know its zoonotic transmission. we dont know, there are no facts and it remains a very open debate. and i think the importance is for any organisation like media or fact checking, they have to be open to challenge and be transparent and ...

To that which basically give, once we have written a fact check, an indication of how inaccurate we think the claim that we are fact checking is, so there is that but across the broader part of our work, there are often a a lot of shades of grey and it can be hard to label it in that way. ian, i wonder if you think that the fact that donald trump had been promoting the covid lab leak theory when he was still in office meant that certain sections of the media were too quick to dismiss it? i mean,...

Written a fact check, how inaccurate we think the claim is, but there is that across the broader part of our work and there are often a lot of shades of grey and it can be hard to label it in that way. ion. shades of grey and it can be hard to label it in that way.— label it in that way. ian, i wonder if ou label it in that way. ian, i wonder if you think _ label it in that way. ian, i wonder if you think that _ label it in that way. ian, i wonder if you think that the _ label it in that way. ...

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