Disaster Trolls
A podcast by BBC Radio 4
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16 Episoade
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Moving to Marianna In Conspiracyland
Publicat: 10.09.2024 -
Why Do You Hate Me? Episode 1
Publicat: 07.02.2024 -
Introducing Marianna in Conspiracyland
Publicat: 15.06.2023 -
Remember my name
Publicat: 03.04.2023 -
Bad People present True Crime Crackers 2022 ft. Disaster Trolls
Publicat: 21.12.2022 -
10. The billion dollar question
Publicat: 30.10.2022 -
9. What they don’t tell you about terror
Publicat: 30.10.2022 -
8. I was a conspiracy theorist - get me out of here
Publicat: 30.10.2022 -
7. I helped bring down Alex Jones
Publicat: 30.10.2022 -
6. The visitor
Publicat: 30.10.2022 -
5. Who believes this stuff?
Publicat: 30.10.2022 -
4. Hall’s stall
Publicat: 30.10.2022 -
3. The insider
Publicat: 30.10.2022 -
2. Sharpening the spike
Publicat: 30.10.2022 -
1. Darkness in the Glade of Light
Publicat: 30.10.2022 -
The worst day of your life didn’t happen
Publicat: 24.10.2022
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What happens when tragedy makes you a target? Why would anybody accuse terrorism survivors of being liars and "crisis actors"?The BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring investigates how people caught up in the Manchester Arena bombing and other UK terror attacks, are targeted with extreme conspiracy theories, online abuse and threats. Some are even hunted down offline. It's a phenomenon we might usually associate with the US, and the billion dollar damages ruling against Alex Jones for claiming the Sandy Hook school shootings were faked. But Marianna uncovers shocking evidence that British trolls are also blighting the lives of people right here in the UK, who now want answers and justice.
