The Riots, The Police and Social Media

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today, Adam and Marianna are joined by Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes, the head of UK Counter Terror Policing.

They discuss what his role entails and the content his team had to assess in the wake of riots in the UK this summer. Matt Jukes describes how his team deal with online threats, the job of governments and regulators to balance freedom with security, and his team’s interactions with social media companies - as well as what he would say to Elon Musk.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming and Marianna Spring. It was made by Chris Flynn with Miranda Slade and Reeta Jobanputra. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, in today's episode, you're going to hear an extended conversation between me,
0:09.6	Mariana Spring, BBC Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent, and Matt Dukes, who is the head of
0:15.6	Counterterrorism Policing in the UK. He's Assistant Commissioner at the Metropolitan
0:20.3	Police, and he wanted to talk to us at length about his work, about what the police
0:25.4	have been doing, about the interaction between the riots we had in the UK
0:29.4	earlier in the summer and social media and just how the social media companies operate
0:35.6	and whether they're regulated enough and it's a very interesting conversation
0:39.0	from somebody you don't hear from a lot so we thought we would give that plenty of space and the focus of today's
0:45.4	news is still the situation in the Middle East particularly the Israeli
0:49.6	strikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and if you want the background of what's going on
0:54.3	there I highly recommend Wednesdays episode of newscast where our international editor
0:59.5	Jeremy Bowen just that thing he's so good at doing which is zipping backwards and forwards
1:03.9	between what's happening now and what was happening in the naughty's and the 90s and
1:08.0	the 80s and just explaining it all really well so if you want your
1:12.0	backgrounder to that situation that is
1:14.2	where you will find it. In terms of what's happening in that situation today
1:17.8	over in New York where Chris Mason is about to come home with the Prime Minister
1:22.4	from the UN General Assembly.
1:24.3	The US, the UK and the EU have called for a 21-day pause on the fighting in Lebanon and they
1:31.5	also say there should be a ceasefire in Gaza and in response to that
1:35.7	the Israeli Prime Minister of Benjamin Nanyahu's office have said he is not responding to that
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