Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! Peter Geoghegan is back for round 2! Peter is a writer at openDemocracy and author of the book Democracy For Sale all about the corruption, dark money, and astroturfing going on in British politics. We had him on the show last year to talk about his book…
Category: Politics
This Is Only The Start Of NHS Privatisation
In the UK this weekend, a concerned 61 year old woman was arrested and slapped with a £10,000 fine after arranging a protest in opposition to the measly 1% pay rise being proposed for nurses by the government. It’s a scene that would have drawn outrage in the Britain of 2019, but we…
Chatter #123 – Bret Schafer on Information Warfare and How Social Media Disrupts Democracy
[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvbelink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Bret Schafer from the Alliance for Securing Democracy was my guest on today’s show. I first spoke to Bret 3 years ago on the show to discuss the weaponisation of information and the threat to democracy. Now, three years later, things have unfortunately got worse and not…
Tech Censorship Is Dangerous, But Micro-targeted Adverts Are Worse
There’s been a lot of focus over the last few months on freedom of speech and censorship online. What began with Alex Jones and David Ike a number of years ago has morphed into bans for Steven Crowder, Project Veritas, Articles of Unity (a campaign to reject the two party system), Unity4J (an…
Chatter #121 – Kyle Taylor On Dark Ads And The Case For Regulating Social Media
Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! Kyle Walker, the founder of Fair Vote UK, was my guest on today’s show! Fair Vote UK is a campaign group dedicated to addressing a lot of issues that I describe in my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War including dark ads, censorship, echo chambers, and the…
How Dark Ads On Facebook Undermine Democracy: Part 2
We’ve been able to see just a handful of the ads that were blanketed across social media during and after the referendum campaign. Vote Leave had found their niche and they were hitting voters hard with the same lines over and over, digitally and on TV and radio. Cummings had realized there was…
