Theme tune and original music by Paul Hartnoll. We can’t go into Russia and broadcast like the BBC can – but RT can come here and say anything it likes.” – Nina JankowiczĭOOMSDAY WATCH was written and presented by Arthur Snell, and produced by Robin Leeburn – with assistant production from Jacob Archbold. “What is shocking is how fast people will jump from a failure of policy itself to the idea that the whole edifice of liberal democracy needs to be junked in favour of a celebrity strongman.” - Tom Nichols.“Our systems are threatened not by people who are suffering but by comfortable middle class people who are bored and looking to go on a crusade.” - Tom Nichols.Navy’s doomsday planes launched on both American coasts. Now Putin’s Russia is Terminator 2, very fluid and adaptable.” – Peter Pomerantsev president Donald Trump tested positive for the novel-coronavirus on Friday morning. “Soviet Union was Terminator 1: bulky and ungainly.“If tech companies can’t moderate memes and text, how on Earth are they going to moderate the Metaverse?” - Nina Jankowicz.
Climate denial is the next battleground, and it will make the anti-lockdown and COVID stuff look like child’s play.” – Darren Loucaides “COVID was a means to test these weapons.“If you’ve got enough money, you can ensure that people hear your talking points day in day out, hour after hour.” – Amil Khan.Want to support us, get episodes early and extra content? Support us on Patreon and back us from just £3 per month now. If you control the information space, do you control the future? And after the pandemic, can we withstand the infodemic?
As the stories of Brexit, COVID and Trump coalesce into one nightmare tale of disinformation and weaponised lying, Arthur Snell asks whether democracy can survive in a post-truth world. The Cold Warriors of the postwar world never dreamed that Western democracies would come to rely on a global information network – and that our very openness could be turned against us.
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