projects editor at BuzzFeed UK, James played a key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden, as well as the offshore leaks, HSBC Files, Reading the Riots and Keep it in the Ground projects.
At WikiLeaks he was closely involved in Cablegate - the publication of 250,000 classified US embassy cables in 2010 - as well as working on two documentaries based on the Iraq War Logs.
Ball is the author of The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World.
At the Guardian he tagged five of the best books about conspiracy theories, including:
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald PosnerRead about the other entries on the list.
Most Americans believe that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone when he killed John F Kennedy – but this book should change their minds. It’s both meticulously reported and pacy as a thriller, and if it doesn’t convince you of the truth of the Kennedy assassination, nothing will.
Case Closed is among Allen Barra's five top JFK assassination books.
Also see Colin Dickey's ten brilliant books to understand conspiracy thinking and Anna Merlan's five of the best books on conspiracy theories in America.
--Marshal Zeringue