Sam interviews Matt Potter about the Ukraine War
This has been an information war
- You’ve shown an intense interest in Ukraine over the past few days as have many other, reporters, correspondents, politicians and hackers. What is your new book about and what has it got to do with Ukraine or Russia?
- Which last conflict did you watch closely – how did it roll out compared to this one? Did you watch ARAB SPRING?
- Communication is happening on platforms that host porn, a proto metaverse, non FB social media (In 2010 it was mainly Facebook) has the world moved on from Facebook since the January 6th protesters were arrested?
- What would your advice to Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigerian and Armenian grassroots activists be?
Matt Potter: Author, journalist, broadcaster (ex-BBC, Telegraph, writer of BBC books) Matt’s first book tracked post-Soviet pilots running arms, drugs and worse from Afghanistan to Somalia
