Do you believe everything you’re told on the internet? Or on TV? And if you don’t, as none of us should, how should we decide? Some people are afraid of migrants - others of losing their homes. Some people don’t believe covid exists - some religiously believe in science and objectivism. Yet others attribute anything they don’t understand to ancient aliens.

So, who do we blame for all this? And, more importantly, who’s got solutions? Mercy Abang is an award-winning journalist from Nigeria. She’s a media entrepreneur, co-managing director and CEO of Hostwriter, based in Berlin, Germany. @hostwriter5502 Lina Chawaf is a Syrian journalist, founder of Radio Rozana broadcasting in Arabic to a Syrian audience in Syria and in diaspora. She’s working from Gaziantep, Turkey. @RozanaFmsyr Péter Krekó is a political scientist and social psychologist of ELTE University. He is the director of Political Capital Institute a Budapest-based independent think tank. He’s also a long-time recurring author and friend of Eurozine.

We meet with them at the spectacular library of the School of English and American Studies at the Eötvös Loránd University, in the heart of Budapest, Hungary.

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Creative team Réka Kinga Papp editor-in-chief, Eurozine Merve Akyel art director, Eurozine Szilvia Pintér producer Margarita Lechner writer-editor Zsófia Gabriella Papp executive producer

Management Hermann Riessner managing director, Eurozine Judit Csikós project manager, Eurozine Csilla Nagyné Kardos office administration, Eurozine

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Art Victor Maria Lima animation Cornelia Frischauf theme music

Hosted by the Library of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at ELTE University in Budapest

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