How objective do you believe your favourite reporters are?
Do the agendas of the companies who pay for the news you hear affect politics?
Why would a reporter be threatened if she told the actual facts of an event, instead of polishing them to something inflammatory?
Ahmed Baba, world-renown journalist and media literacy expert, joins us today to share ways that we can detect disinformation and become generally more conscientious citizens walking the world. Ahmed Baba is a journalist, entrepreneur, and media literacy consultant. He’s a columnist at The Independent, writes a newsletter on Substack, and is a co-founder of Rantt. His work has been cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, CBS News, Rolling Stone, and more.
Newsletter: https://www.ahmedbaba.news/
Media Literacy Lectures: https://tinyurl.com/ytje2yvz
Social media links and other writing: https://linktr.ee/ahmedbaba
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