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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 you're 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 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 sc...

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 you're 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 that's the most important juice for us is those photos and videos are so core to what we do. 0k. well, suzanne...

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 people died in the incident and dozens more are still missing. suzanne, how much was actually reported at...

In morocco, living in spain. so in melilla, that little enclave and things like that. and that's 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 death on the border. i wonder what role traditional journalism methods also play in this. and presu...

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 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 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 bring ben strick i...