bellingcat discovered in combing through ms.illiams' social media history that, of all the right-wing white nationalist groups and personalities she followed, this nick fuentes guy was her clear favorite. mr. fuentes is an advocate for a whites-only homeland, as in a country exclusively for white people. i will give you one guess as to what country he thinks that should be. his charming resume includes denying that the holocaust happened, claiming that things were better in america under jim crow laws, so he's pro racial segregation, of course, the better to achieve, ultimately, a whites-only nation. he was at the white nationalist unite the right rally in charlottesville in 2017. he rallied pro trump rioters outside the u.s. capitol on january 6th this year. and this weekend, while conservatives and elected republicans were holding their annual conservative political action conference, cpac, this year it was all about how donald trump actually won the election and he's still secretly the actual president. while that was happeni

eliot from bellingcat. you're all about getting to the truth and getting to the facts.mit the bias from facts? if i may paraphrase is how can we make facts fashionable again instead of opinion? i think partly really comes down time and time again for me of having a kind of educated populus who understand how the media works nowadays and it's important, and i don't want to train everyone to be media studies student, that's not what i'm saying. i'm saying we need to have looking at a new way of teaching civics because we are engulfed in media nowadays, it's coming to us from every angle, as we carry on ourselves we can be engage with the media on a device. yet we cannot have a really just have society think about that and from a very early age we are not really addressing the issues that is raising and i think ofcom were saying 50% of ten—year—olds in the uk have smartphones. so why don't we actually get a way of having a class and maybe not at ten years old, it may be at 16 or 18 years old, but the student example is an organisation setting up pop—up newsrooms in the uk

and from here in the uk, elliot higgins, founder of bellingcat, of bellingcat, an independent internationalctive of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists. elliot, it's good to see you as well. welcome to you all. now let's go to our first question. and this is from annetta in macedonia. she works in the air freight business. over to you. thank you for having me on this bbc panel. very nice to meet all of you. my question was how can government, and this means also including medical experts, can offer simpler explanations about the pandemic and about covid—19? because here in my country, we don't have so much official explanation from the government and from the medical experts and from the world health organization, we don't have almost nothing. so, how can governments best offer simple explanations about what's a complex subject to the public? given you addressed the world health organization directly, i think we should go to margaret harris, who was smiling at your question, hopefully a positive smile. margaret, over to you. nice to meet you. i'm sorry you have not heard anyt