This chapter explores the tumultuous protests in Britain following a knife attack that claimed the lives of three young girls, revealing how misinformation fueled public unrest. It emphasizes the complexities of the crowd's composition and the critical need for authorities to address disinformation to prevent societal tensions from escalating.
Unrest across the country has been driven in part by the provably false claims of right-wing provocateurs. We examine the real concerns underlying the violence, and how to end it swiftly. Japanese politics had until recently been anachronistically tame; not so now that the social-media populists have arrived (10:18). And the notable parallels between “House of the Dragon” and modern politics (18:00).
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