S2, Ep5: Fake News with Robbie Lockie

<p><strong>This episode is brought to you by Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your order at</strong> <a href="https://www.vivolife.com/"><strong>vivolife.com</strong></a><strong>!</strong></p> <p><strong>This week we are also sponsored by Veestro! Use code PEEPS at checkout for 25% off your first order at</strong> <a href="http://tryveestro.com/chickpeeps"><strong>tryveestro.com/chickpeeps</strong></a><strong>!</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The ChickPeeps chat to vegan activist, co-founder and director of Plant Based News, Robbie Lockie, who speaks about the importance of preserving integrity and truth in the vegan media. Starting as a youtube channel in 2016, PBN has grown to become a pillar of the global vegan community and in the 3 years since it's launch has published more than 6,000 articles and shared over 800 videos. Robbie, Robbie and Evy talk about our collective obligation to avoid hype and share responsibly researched vegan stories, and how to clapback at anti-vegan campaigners online with hard, incontrovertible truth. Also on this episode...</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Plant Based News was founded by Robbie Lockie and Klaus Mitchell.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What to do when you see people spreading misinformation about veganism online.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The smear campaigns devised to discredit the work of the animal rights movement.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vegan clickbait: yay or nay?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robbie L shares some of his trusted online sources for fact-checking your vegan news.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'We are monkeys living on a rock in a bubble in space'.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robbie L shares how social networking sites are used as tools of propaganda.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Compassion fatigue: how do you choose what stories to take in?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'There are more ethical people alive today than there have ever been in the whole of human history.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robbie explains why one particularly controversial public figure would hypothetically be the greatest asset for the vegan movement.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listener email from a plant based listener who struggles to feel great empathy for animals.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Check out all the latest vegan news stories at</span> <a href="https://www.plantbasednews.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plant Based News</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow Plant Based News on</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/plantbasednews/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/plantbasednews"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/plantbasednews"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/plantbasednews"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Youtube</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to the</span> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/plantbasednews"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PBN podcast</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow Robbie Lockie on</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/robbie_lockie/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><a href="https://nutritionfacts.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NutritionFacts.org</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.pcrm.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Social Media</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter:</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/ChickPeepsPod"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@ChickPeepsPod</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chickpeepspod/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@ChickPeepsPod</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook:</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChickPeepsPodcast/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@ChickPeepsPodcast</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Momoko Hill:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/oh_momoko/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@oh_momoko</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robbie Jarvis:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/RobbJarvis/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@robbjarvis</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tylor Starr:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tylorstarr/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@tylorstarr</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evanna Lynch:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/msevylynch/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@msevylynch</span></a></p>