Mevan Babakar

Press

Speaking

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  • Keynote: Council of Europe (2025)
  • Interview: BBC Radio (2025)
  • Live TV: Sky news (2025)
  • Interview: BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live (Live) (2021)
  • Interview: BBC Radio Ulster (Live) (2021)
  • Interview: BBC World Service (2018)
  • Speaker: UK Conf of Science Journalists (2018)
  • Interview: BBC More Or Less (2018)
  • Keynote: National Archives and AI (2018)
  • Speaker: BBC Text AV Conference (2018)
  • Keynote: Nordic Digital Business Summit (2017)
  • Interview: BBC Click (2017)
  • Keynote: PyDataLDN (2017)
  • Speaker: Global Factchecking Conf. (2023, 2017, 2015)
  • Interview: LBC (Live) (2017)
  • Interview, Podcast: BBC Click, World Service (Live)(2017)
  • Speaker: SXSW (2017)

Articles

  • New York Times He Gave a Bike to a Refugee Girl. 24 Years Later, She Got to Thank Him.
  • New York Times Quote of the Day Quotation of the Day: Ex-Iraqi Refugee Finds Dutch Donor 24 Years Later
  • BBC ‘Bike gift stranger’ and former child refugee reunited
  • The Guardian Former child refugee reunited with aid worker who gave her a bike
  • Lonely Planet Former child refugee retraces the steps she made to the UK 24 years ago
  • Buzzfeed A Woman Tweeted A Picture Of A Man Who Had Shown Her Kindness As A Child Refugee. Within 36 Hours They Were Reunited.
  • UNHCR Social media helps former refugee thank man who gave her a childhood bicycle
  • Wired Google is helping Full Fact create an automated, real-time fact-checker
  • The Guardian Journalists to use ‘immune system’ software against fake news
  • TechCrunch Full Fact aims to end fake news with automated fact checking tools
  • The Guardian Fake news clampdown: Google gives €150,000 to fact-checking projects
  • Engadget Full Fact wants to automate fact checking to fight fake news
  • Independent Google funds automated fact-checking software in bid to fight fake news
  • Poynter Full Fact has developed and is using an inward-facing automated fact checking platform
  • Nieman Lab Fact-checking and data-driven projects among winners of Google’s Digital News Initiative funding

Videos

Sky News
Washington Post. I’d like to point out that I was incredibly sleep deprived and this was my last interview in a run of about 50 that I did in a 24 hour period (!) I don’t recommend becoming a viral news story, folks.