Jon Ronson: ‘A society that stops caring about facts is a society where anything can happen’

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Jon Ronson: ‘A society that stops caring about facts is a society where anything can happen’
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The broadcaster’s podcast series exploring conspiracy theories and the culture wars has struck a nerve. He explains why journalistic values are needed now more than ever

The second series of Things Fell Apart, the writer and broadcaster’s podcast series exploring conspiracy theories and the culture wars, topped the charts earlier this year. He explains why journalistic values such as evidence and fairness are needed more than ever

Ronson, who grew up in Cardiff, now lives with his wife between a small apartment in Manhattan and a house in upstate New York. In a Zoom conversation, I ask him if it was difficult to withhold derision when dealing with people who spoke demonstrable untruths. Images of Judy Mikovits working in a lab and a group of protesters on a boardwalk in Huntington Beach, California

None of that has prevented him from being subject to claims of bias. A number of prominent online activists have taken him to task for, in 2021, that looked at the rise of third-wave feminism and the plight of Camp Trans, a protest against the exclusion of trans women from the all-female musical festival Michfest that ran in Michigan from 1976 to 2015.

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