An Interview with investigative reporter Jessikka Aro / Why Should We Care? / Conference 2024
Finnish investigative journalist Jessikka Aro made headlines around the globe when she exposed so-called troll farms in Russia a decade ago. However, that reporting also led to Aro herself becoming the target of vicious online abuse and intimidation. She discusses – among other questions – how troll farms function, whether their often young staff actually believe in the work they do and whether technological developments are making it even harder for the West to respond to such interference.
An interview was led by Ian Willoughby, a journalist with Radio Prague International, on the occasion of the international conference in honour of the laureate ot the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2024. For more about "Why Should We Care?" conference, visit us via: https://www.vaclavhavel.cz/en/conference-2024
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Serie: Why Should We Care? / 2024
12th International Conference in Honour of the Laureate of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2024
Date: October 2, 2024
Venue: Prague Crossroads, Zlatá 1, Prague
Each of us is responsible for the whole world," said Václav Havel in one of his many reflections on the topic of human freedom and responsibility. For an individual this seems a superhuman task.
International law, international justice and their mechanisms are failing as a principle of international governance. However, the interconnection of today's world, through the network of relationships, processes and flows of raw materials, goods, technologies and information, continues to deepen. We depend not only on the entire surrounding inhabited world and on the state of the planet as a whole. We have no escape.
We can hardly think that we are safe as long as nothing happens to us personally. That we are not conce
