S2, Ep5: Fake News with Robbie Lockie

This episode is brought to you by Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your order at vivolife.com! This week we are also sponsored by Veestro! Use code PEEPS at checkout for 25% off your first order at tryveestro.com/chickpeeps! 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... How Plant Based News was founded by Robbie Lockie and Klaus Mitchell. What to do when you see people spreading misinformation about veganism online. The smear campaigns devised to discredit the work of the animal rights movement. Vegan clickbait: yay or nay? Robbie L shares some of his trusted online sources for fact-checking your vegan news. ‘We are monkeys living on a rock in a bubble in space’. Robbie L shares how social networking sites are used as tools of propaganda. Compassion fatigue: how do you choose what stories to take in? ‘There are more ethical people alive today than there have ever been in the whole of human history. Robbie explains why one particularly controversial public figure would hypothetically be the greatest asset for the vegan movement. Listener email from a plant based listener who struggles to feel great empathy for animals. Links: Check out all the latest vegan news stories at Plant Based News. Follow Plant Based News on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. Listen to the PBN podcast. Follow Robbie Lockie on Instagram. NutritionFacts.org The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine   Social Media Twitter: @ChickPeepsPod Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast Momoko Hill: @oh_momoko Robbie Jarvis: @robbjarvis Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch