Sven Hughes is a former British Army Psychological Warfare officer now running two strategic communications companies: Verbalisation and Global Influence. He explains that Fake News is nothing new, having been used in the past by everyone from the Romans to the Mongolian Emperor Genghis Khan. He believes many of us use confirmation bias when listening to or reading the news, in other words we believe what we want to believe. Words are being increasingly weaponised in hybrid warfare and he advocates the use of Facebook Snopes, Le Monde who have developed tools to flag up fake news. http://www.verbalisation.com http://www.globalinfluence.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HLtZ2yh9s
Sue Jones takes a Sideways look at the gas called Helium, apparently its running out here on Earth and costs about £25.00 for a cylinder to blow up about 50 balloons
James Grossweiner aka. Quentin D. Fortesqueue is the editor of the Rochdale Herald internet satire site who got contacted by BBC Radio 5 Live researcher Sophia Elahi asking them to comment on the body on the moor a deadly serious story, is this how fake news starts? http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=174761#174761 @RochdaleHerald Hi, I work for BBC Radio 5 live. Are any of your reporters free to speak on our show about the body on the moor? http://www.rochdaleherald.co.uk https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rochdale-herald https://twitter.com/AmaraSophia/statuses/824581959062093824 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/26/identity-of-man-found-dead-on-saddleworth-moor-in-2015-is-confirmed-david-lytton