Al Pinkerton's guest appearances

Al Pinkerton

Sam Talks Technology

Andy McLoughlin

Rory Sutherland

Tim Berners-Lee

Sarah Frier

Peter Jones

Katharine Hamnett

Robert Scoble

Alan Watkins

Katz Kiely

Andy Evans

Charlie Cox

Rhys Jones

Hugh MacLeod

Shaa Wasmund

Richard Edwards

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Sam Sethi talks with Dr Alasdair Pinkerton and co-host Matt Hodges-Long about the recent UK general election where Alasdair stood in Surrey Heath as the PPC (Parliamentary Prospective Candidate) for the Liberal Democrats.Despite losing to Mr Gove, they managed to use social media to crowdfund £25k and increased the LibDem vote by 16%.We talked about the potential negative effect social media will have in the 2020 US election now that Mark Zuckerberg has decided not to fact check political ads.We also talked about the potential scenarios in a post-brexit Boris world given Alasdair’s PhD research work on ‘Global Britain’.

Sam Sethi talks with Dr Alasdair Pinkerton and co-host Matt Hodges-Long about the recent UK general election where Alasdair stood in Surrey Heath as the PPC (Parliamentary Prospective Candidate) for the Liberal Democrats.Despite losing to Mr Gove, they managed to use social media to crowdfund £25k and increased the LibDem vote by 16%.We talked about the potential negative effect social media will have in the 2020 US election now that Mark Zuckerberg has decided not to fact check political ads.We also talked about the potential scenarios in a post-brexit Boris world given Alasdair’s PhD research work on ‘Global Britain’.

Dr Al Pinkerton talks about the effect of social media in the UK & US elections