In recent weeks parts of the UK saw violent riots fuelled by misinformation online and anti-immigration sentiment. Some rioters have since been sentenced using evidence from social media. Nazir Afzal, a former Chief Crown Prosecutor, and Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Essex, explain how it worked. Many of you may have seen Elon Musk’s interview on X with Donald Trump. What impact will his political views and his content moderation policies have on the social media platform? Lara O'Reilly from Business Insider fills us in. And we learn about the art of sports commentary from one of the BBC’s Olympics commentators, Andrew Cotter. Presenter: Katie Razzall Producer: Simon Richardson Assistant Producer: Lucy Wai
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In recent weeks, parts of the UK have seen violent riots fuelled by misinformation online and anti immigration sentiment.
Some rioters have since been sentenced, using evidence from social media accounts.
To explain how this worked, I'm joined by Nazir Afzal, former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the north west of England.
The Internet is a force for good, but it's also, on this occasion, a crime scene.
And so you've mentioned social media.
Yes.
There's an enormous number of platforms, the ones we know about, there are others, there are messaging apps, there are people who've been whatsapping each other and groups have been broken into or people from within the group have shared what the content of those messages are.
There are forums and discussion boards.
You must know of Reddit and 4chan and a few others.
There's live streaming platforms, there's video photo sharing platforms, there's email correspondence, there's blogs, there's crowdfunding platforms.