at ten o clock, we ll have a full round up of the day s news. first, social media, anti social media, breaking news, fake news this is the programme about a revolution in media with amol rajan, the bbc s media editor. hello. what kind of health is british investigative journalism actually in? better than you might think, perhaps because a lot of it is happening away from the national titles and being conducted by localjournalists, for instance, in manchester. or perhaps it s because a lot of it s being done by specialists who are willing to work for a variety of titles. or maybe because a pandemic being a complex and hopefully once in a century event lends itself to scandal, lea ks and whistle blows. today, we re going to go inside the mechanics of investigative reporting to give you the nuts, the bolts, the fear, the loathing and the legal letters of being a proper investigative hack. let me introduce you to our guests. george arbuthnott is a deputy editor of the sunday ti
for 18 year olds, rishi sunak also did his first video on the conservative party s tiktok account. hi, tiktok, sorry to be breaking into your usual politics free feed, but i m making a big announcement today and i ve been told that a lot of you already have some views on it. so, first thing no, i m not sending everyone off to join the army. what i am doing is proposing a bold new model of national service for 18 year olds. well, i want to bring in shona ghosh from bloomberg. everyone here listening to rishi sunak there. give us the basics, shona, because lots of people will think of tiktok as a platform for kids. mm. ..who clearly don t vote, but who is consuming political content on tiktok? so tiktok itself has been trying to dispel the idea that it is mostly a platform, an app used by children. and that seems to be true. erm, it is also widely used by the elder millennials. ..won t say which camp i m in, and also gen z, erm, you know, which is a pretty big cohort and they
and then after they won, they sort of credited - the ability to spend a load of money on facebook - in those places. so, you know, ithink. there is.there s a kind of mixture of, like, - you know, mutual logic, folk folklore, but also - the ability to raise money and get volunteers mobilised and do those sorts of thingsl that help campaigns move as well. - well, we ve talked about the role online campaigning might play in the general election here in the uk, but whoever wins, a small number of unelected tech bosses in silicon valley will still have a huge say in the lives and interactions of billions of people around the world. i want to think now about some broader questions about how big tech impacts society. to discuss all this, i m joined by katy balls, political editor at the spectator, timandra harkness, tech commentator and author of technology is not the problem, and, as mentioned, baroness martha lane fox, tech entrepreneur, co founder of lastminute.com and former board member
dem held marginals. there was no transparency. you couldn t really see into what was going i on in that election. and then after they won, they sort of credited - the ability to spend a load of money on facebook - in those places. so, you know, ithink. there is.there s a kind of mixture of, like, - you know, mutual logic, folk folklore, but also - the ability to raise money and get volunteers mobilised and do those sorts of thingsl that help campaigns move as well. - well, we ve talked about the role online campaigning might play in the general election here in the uk, but whoever wins, a small number of unelected tech bosses in silicon valley will still have a huge say in the lives and interactions of billions of people around the world. i want to think now about some broader questions about how big tech impacts society. to discuss all this, i m joined by katy balls, political editor at the spectator, timandra harkness, tech commentator and author of technology is not the problem, and
you know, for example, | it s a while ago now, i but the 2015 campaign, for example, the tories targeted a lot of lib - dem held marginals. there was no transparency. you couldn t really see into what was going i on in that election. and then after they won, they sort of credited - the ability to spend a load of money on facebook - in those places. so, you know, ithink. there is.there s a kind of mixture of, like, - you know, mutual logic, folk folklore, but also - the ability to raise money and get volunteers mobilised and do those sorts of thingsl that help campaigns move as well. - well, we ve talked about the role online campaigning might play in the general election here in the uk, but whoever wins, a small number of unelected tech bosses in silicon valley will still have a huge say in the lives and interactions of billions of people around the world. i want to think now about some broader questions about how big tech impacts society. to discuss all this, i m joined by katy balls,