Second hour: Investigative reports: Reading between the Fake News lines with Bristol University Cognitive Science Professor Stephan Lewandowsky. Interview with Stephan Lewandowsky, Professor of Cognitive Sciences from Bristol University â he discusses fake news: fake news and post truth world rocketed with rise of technology and internet â village idiot can find others and form a community; news wires and same stories; loss of gatekeepers â editors â positive and negative; WMD in Iraq â fake news â governments conspired; competing versions of reality and truth; people dont care what truth is anymore says Katie Hopkins â leads to fascism; conspiracy theory â telling the difference between truth and nonsense â look at record of people involved - Edward Snowden legitimate â conspiracy theorists happy with incoherence; deliberate disinformation from governments and private organisations; US elections and Russian influence; CIA influencing elections in past â National Endowment for Democracy; how to detect interference â look for fake social media and twitter accounts (2011); The Fake News Debunking Handbook by Stefan and John Lock: http://sks.to/debunk The Debunking Handbook: now freely available for download - Post Truth â we knew truth more before? - I can believe anything I want precursor to fascism â Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt The political theorist who wrote about the Nazis and âthe banality of evilâ in the 60s has become a surprise bestseller. Should we heed her warning that protesting just feeds the chaos? said this about Nazi regime; mainstream media versus alternative media for truth; clip from The BBC Media Show â interview with Channel 4 News editor Ben de Pear about politicians blacklisting news and current affairs programmes; Fox News and being misinformed; where does he get his news from â different medias from around world: The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, Der Spiegel, The Age. Canadas Globe & Mail; New York Times; Washington Post - Slaughter Bots film â Prof. Stuart Russell from Berkeley University, California â lobbying UN to stop them. PMQs Ben Bradshaw â Trump and moving capital of Israel to Jerusalem â was PM consulted? Saudi Arabia not happy, building of 3rd Temple â clashes erupting in Israel/Palestine. Netanyahu: the early years documentary by PBS Frontline â Netanyahu looked at for corruption by police â changing law so those in office not prosecuted. Philippines: Dengue vaccine could worsen disease - Philipines prepared for worst-case scenario after 733,000 given dengue vaccine that could worsen disease in government school immunisation programme. Russia to launch independent internet for BRICS countries. ISIS no strongholds left â reappearing elsewhere.