Most people aren’t uninformed
In a world flooded with content, finding sources we can actually trust is harder than ever.
Here you’ll find our way of helping people to learn.No agenda. No sensationalism. Just the information that actually helps you understand the world and act with more confidence.
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“The antidote to misinformation is not less content. It’s better content.”
These are our own takes. On the issues that matter, the patterns were seeing and the things we think you should know about. No clickbait. Just honest writing. And with your permission, occasionally some hot takes. If you would like to contribute an article or tell us about a specific topic you would like us to cover then let us know here.
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articles worth reading
Read. Actually read.
Sharing reliable voices. Honest information. No noise. Not keeping up with the media cycle but focusing on topics that matter.
Documentaries, Movies & Series
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Former tech insiders explain how social media platforms are designed to manipulate behaviour. Not as a side effect but as the entire business model.
Where to find it→ Netflix
Topic of Interest→ Technology/Misinformation
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Set during the final days of the Nicaraguan Revolution that ended the Somoza dictatorship in 1979, this 1983 political thriller follows three journalists whose professional ethics collapse under the weight of a conflict they can no longer stay neutral about. Inspired by the real murder of ABC reporter Bill Stewart by Nicaraguan National Guard troops.
Where to Watch it→ Prime Video/ Rent on most platforms
Topic of Interest→ Press Freedom/ Revolution/ Ethics
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The Cambridge Analytica story told from the inside. How personal data was weaponised to target voters with surgical precision during the 2016 election and Brexit campaign.
Where to find it→ Netflix
Topic of Interest→ Data/ Democracy/ Misinformation
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Laura Poitras films in real time as Snowden hands over evidence that governments were mass surveilling their own citizens.
Where to find it→ Rent in most platforms
Topic of Interest→ Surveillance/ Power/ Truth
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This subversive documentary unpacks the tricks brands use to keep their customers consuming — and the real impact they have on our lives and the world.
Where: Netflix
Topics: Current Events, Consumerism
We are lucky enough to have so many great formats that offer us a deeper understanding. We challenge you to learn while you’re watching something.
For those who find reading boring ;)
Some of these will make you angry. Some will make you hopeful. All of them will make you think differently about something you thought you already understood. And that’s exactly the point.
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The Coming War on China explores the tense geopolitical relationship between the United States and China, arguing that the two nuclear-armed nations may be on a dangerous path to war.
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Turning Point is a series of in-depth historical documentary projects directed by Brian Knappenberger that chronicle major global conflicts and their lasting geopolitical impacts.
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2000 meters to Adriivka is an award-winning, real-time documentary film. It documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a personal and devastating vantage point.
Where to find: Prime Video
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"The TikTok Effect" is a 2023 BBC documentary. It investigates how extreme social media challenges and misinformation on TikTok spill over into the real world.
Where to find: Prime Video (or BBC in the UK)
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Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet is a documentary featuring Sir David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström. It explains that humanity has pushed the Earth past nine key environmental limits that have kept our planet stable for 10,000 years. The film urges urgent action this decade to fix the crisis.
Where to find: Netflix
Podcasts
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Througline- NPR
Takes a current event and traces it back through history to find it where it actually started.
Where to find it→ Spotify/ Apple Podcasts/ NPR Website
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The Rest is Politics
A former Conservative minister and a former Labour spin doctor discuss politics without performing outrage.
Where to find it→ Spotify/ Apple Podcasts
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Maintenance Phase
Debunks widely believed health myths with rigorous research and zero condescension.
Where to find it→ Spotify/ Apple Podcasts
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The Intelligence
Daily briefing from The Economist — short, rigorous, global. For when you want to understand a story beyond the headline without committing to an hour-long deep dive.
Books
Articles give the what. Documentaries give you the feeling. Books give you the why. These are the ones we think every person who cares about the world should have read at least once.
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Two Harvard professors explain how democracies collapse from within — through elections, legal manoeuvres and the quiet dismantling of norms. Written before Trump’s second term.
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A Swedish doctor proves with data that our instincts about global progress are almost always wrong — and explains why. The antidote to both doom-scrolling and false hope.
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An Oxford economist argues that the growth-at-all-costs model is broken and proposes a new framework built for people and planet.
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Pulitzer Prize winning historian Anne Applebaum reveals how today’s autocracies aren’t bound by shared ideology but by shared kleptocracy: laundered money, traded surveillance tech, and propaganda that flows across borders as easily as cash. A sharp, urgent map of how authoritarianism actually operates nowadays.
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The legal scholar who coined the term “net neutrality” turns his attention to how tech platforms quietly became the most effective wealth-extraction machines ever built.
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Economist Noreena Hertz argues that loneliness isn’t just a personal struggle, it’s a political one, driving the rise of populism, the erosion of trust and the splintering of communities worldwide.
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Historian Rashid Khalidi reframes a century of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not as an intractable two-sided dispute but as a sustained settler-colonial struggle, drawing on his own family’s history alongside declassified archives.
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A historian of the 20th century’s worst atrocities distils twenty lessons from the collapse of democracies past into a pocket sized field guide for resisting authoritarianism today.
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The follow-up to Freakonomics applies the same irreverent, data driven curiosity to terrorism, climate change, prostitution and altruism, proving again that the obvious explanation for human behaviour is usually wrong.
We need to learn with you. Please, if you have some recommendations or thought,s share them with us.
Our purpose with this page is to share knowledge with you, we’re not right on everything, we’re trying to find common ground for everyone.
This page is updated regularly. If you've watched, read or listened to something that genuinely changed how you see the world — tell us. We read everything and add the best ones.