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Behind their back. and many of them don't survive. yes, lots of them didn't survive. and that's where there's a big suspicion that, yes, there were 23 people who had died on the day but actually, there's 70 more people missing. and so, the question is, what happened to those? who are they? where are they? and there's a suspicion that they probably passed somewhere further down in the day or the few next few days. and that's kind of where all of this gets fudged and — and becomes really important. 0k. ben, when it comes to how you've told the story, you know, it's on the bbc website, it's on ...

Of law and author of the fight for privacy, protecting dignity, identity and love in the digital age. shona gauche from insiders uk bureau. benjamin strick, of course, and suzanne from africa eye. we will be back next week. in the meantime, you can head to the bbc sounds app and search for elon musk to find a whole radio four series about him. but for now, thank you so much for listening. goodbye. hello. river flows across the uk have been responding to the much—needed rainfall we have had this week. for some, though, it has been a bit too much all at once. in kent and sussex in particular w...

Is going to be a whole lot of leaving of twitter, including advertisers. and i'll be sad, you know, i'lljust 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, i'm not sure where the wry smile came in. i guess one thing i would emphasise is, is thinki...

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 ...

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 us to act...