Naomi Alderman & Marianna Spring

The internet has flooded us with more knowledge, opinions, ideas and opportunities – as well as verbal attacks and misinformation – than ever before. It lets us learn more quickly and also spread falsehood more quickly; it brings us together, and also divides us in profound and potentially devastating new ways. 

So how do we navigate this online epoch we’re living through: the good, the bad and the ugly? 

To help answer that question, we are joined by two acclaimed writers and expert navigators of the online world.  

Naomi Alderman is a prize-winning novelist, and TV and video games producer. In her trail-blazing book “Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today” she helps us chart a way forward, drawing on the work of philosophers and historians to argue that we are currently living through humanity’s third information crisis. 

Award-winning journalist Marianna Spring is the BBC’s first disinformation and social media correspondent. Her debut book, “Conspiracyland: Trolls, True Believers and the New Information War”, is an urgent and gripping investigation into online trolling, disinformation and conspiracy theories.