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of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest, as we're talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? look, for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there's — there's a couple of reasons. first of all, collaboration. i never would have met some of the people i've worked with had it not been for twitter. second, it's a world of sources at our fingertips, so that we're able to contact those that we really wouldn't be able to actually reach. and third, it's a way for...

The core of the problem is that old—school media organizations or old—school way of doing journalism means you've got a reporter on the ground who you can trust to tell you what's happened. and with social media giving everybody a camera in their pocket, all of a sudden there's — there's people filming things everywhere. but again, there's the same problem that a journalist normally covers. who do you trust? what can you say? and the bbc as a news organization doesn't always succeed in getting that kind of stuff as quickly as people would like. so let me bring ben strick in then to tell ...