What can the spread of QAnon from the US to Europe teach us about tackling disinformation and understanding countries’ vulnerabilities to viral conspiracy theories. Lighthouse Reports and Bellingcat...
Daniel Howden
Daniel Howden is the Managing Director of Lighthouse Reports, an award-winning European nonprofit investigative newsroom. A writer, reporter and editor his work focuses on surveillance technologies and migration. He was previously a foreign correspondent with the Economist, the Guardian and the Independent. Much of his work since 2016 has focused on migration; he was Senior Editor at Refugees Deeply and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. He is a two-times winner of the Migration Media Award, and his long-form writing won special mention at the inaugural True Stories Award, and a finalist slot at the Online Journalism Awards.
For months, journalists investigating the effects of injections of Italian and European funds into North Africa to stop migratory flows and externalize border control have reported on the routes that ...
European priorities, Libyan realities: the central Mediterranean refugee crisis
The session will take as its starting point the October 2017 long-read article entitled European priorities, Libyan realities by Daniel Howden. While in Italy, as in Europe, we witness a progressive...
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