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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 actually speak to people on the ground and it's one of...

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 that's the most important juice for us is those photos and videos, they 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 ca...

That's the core — that's 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. 0k. so let me br...

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. this will have other ramifications. but for now, thank you so much for listening. goodbye. hello. sunday will be a story of sunshine and showers for the vast majority, but a bit more sunshine around than we saw through saturday. the main exception would ...

American billionaire to take control of an influential social media platform. should we care? we will also hear from journalists with the bbc�*s africa eye investigations team about how open source journalism allowed them to uncover the truth behind tragedy on the moroccan spanish border. ben strick is one of the investigative journalists behind the story. out of interest, as we are talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? for many of us twitter is a lifeline. not only is it a way to share findings but there are a couple of reasons, first of all, collaboration...