Who Can We Trust in a Digital World?

Marc Jones

Marc is the Curator of Fossil Reptiles and Amphibians at London’s Natural History Museum. His research covers a wide variety of topics, including the evolution of salamanders and bite force in lizards. He’s also maintained an interest in climate change since his university degree in Palaeobiology, which included several modules on the subject.

Ava Lee

Ava is a campaigner at Global Witness – an organisation dedicated to investigating and exposing environmental and human rights abuses. For the past five years, she’s led a team tackling the harms caused by big tech companies. Her work has revealed how Meta’s job-advertising algorithm discriminates based on gender, violating equalities laws. She’s also led investigations into major platforms, including Meta, TikTok, X and YouTube, showing their failure to address incitement to violence in Myanmar and Ethiopia. Ava’s research has also highlighted how tech companies are unprepared for electoral misinformation in key elections across the world. Most recently, she headed up a climate disinformation unit, exposing networks spreading false information, including a bot campaign linked to Azerbaijan’s COP presidency.

Disha Ravi

Disha is a climate and environmental justice activist who founded Fridays For Future India in 2019. She was dubbed The Climate Change Agent in the Forbes Women Power List in 2021 and Vogue India named her one of nine Indian climate warriors paving the way for a more sustainable tomorrow. After seeing her family impacted by the water crisis, Disha became an activist advocating for better policies and governance for the climate and environmental sector. She’s a writer and is passionate about making sure the voices of the Most Affected People and Areas are heard in climate conversations.

Marco Silva

Marco is a senior journalist with BBC Verify covering climate change misinformation and disinformation. His job involves a combination of day-to-day fact-checking and longer-term investigative projects. Most recently, he exposed how a nature reserve in the Philippines became the target of an online smear campaign. He has also been busy reporting on how some online communities have been turning to conspiracy theories to explain extreme weather events.

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