Mark Zuckerberg sent shockwaves through the media world when, abruptly, in the days before Donald Trump's inauguration, he swapped sides in the information war. Meta would no longer appoint fact-check...
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James Ball
political editor The New European
James Ball is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author, fellow of the think-tank Demos, and the political editor of The New European. He has worked as the global editor of TBIJ, a special correspondent at BuzzFeed UK and special projects editor at The Guardian, where he played a key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden, as well as the offshore leaks, HSBC Files, Reading the Riots and Keep it in the Ground projects. At WikiLeaks he was closely involved in Cablegate – the publication of 250,000 classified US embassy cables in 2010 – as well as working on two documentaries based on the Iraq War Logs.
James is the author of multiple books, including Post-Truth and The Tangled Web We Weave: Inside The Shadow System That Shapes the Internet. His most recent book, The Other Pandemic: How Qanon Contaminated The World was published by Bloomsbury in July 2023. He writes an occasional newsletter, Techtris, on tech, policy and politics.
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