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What is driving unrest on the streets?

How can online misinformation be tackled?

There is unrest in Sunderland tonight, the latest community to be disturbed. Several hundred rioters are on the streets - a car has been set on fire and police have came under attack. We are live there - and ask how online misinformation - feared to be driving these disturbances countrywide - can be tackled.

Also tonight:

In her first interview since being released as part of a major prisoner swap, a leading Russian dissident who was jailed for protesting against the invasion of Ukraine tells us what it's like to finally be free.

And I've been to the Tudor manor house which once inspired Hilary Mantel, and where newly uncovered paper-cuttings which slipped between the floorboards are giving in a rare insight into the education of girls in the 17th century.

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Fri 2 Aug 2024 22:00

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