This chapter explores how misinformation has contributed to social unrest and riots in Britain. It emphasizes the responsibility of media outlets to provide accurate information during crises to mitigate tensions and conflicts.
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).