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Why Do You Hate Me? USA: Introducing... Why Do You Hate Me? USA
For the second series of BBC Radio 4’s Why Do You Hate Me, disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring heads to the USA. She invest…
1 year, 6 months ago
Welcome to Conspiracyland
Season 6 Episode 1
This is the new home of Marianna Spring's social media and disinformation investigations for BBC Radio 4. Listen back to Death by Conspiracy, War on …
1 year, 6 months ago
Why Do You Hate Me?: 5. I Went Inside The World Of The Trolled And The Troll
Marianna investigates online abuse targeting Eni Aluko and tracks down one of her trolls.
In this series, Why Do You Hate Me?, Marianna Spring delves …
2 years ago
Why Do You Hate Me?: 4. I Received Online Death Threats And The Premier League Caught My Troll
The Premier League has told the BBC it’s fighting a rise in social media threats against both its players and their families, with a team dedicated t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Do You Hate Me?: 3. Sadiq Khan: I Didn’t Say That!
Last November, a faked audio clip of London's mayor went viral. Marianna Spring talks to Sadiq Khan about the impact it had and tracks down it's susp…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Do You Hate Me? Episode 1
When Julia Wandelt posted on social media that she believed she was Madeleine McCann, she became a lightning rod for online anger. In the first of a …
2 years, 1 month ago
Coming up on… Why Do You Hate Me?
Season 5 Episode 3
The online world can be a breeding ground for hate. But why do some people behave the way they do on social media?
In each episode, the BBC's Disinfor…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Do You Hate Me?: 2. I Believed Conspiracies About The Shooting I Survived
Marianna Spring talks to a survivor of the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 about how posts on a social media account made him question an event he…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Do You Hate Me?: 1. I Regret Posting Online That I Was Madeleine McCann
When Julia Wandelt posted on social media that she believed she was Madeleine McCann, she became a lightning rod for online anger. In the first of a …
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Do You Hate Me?: Introducing... Why Do You Hate Me?
The online world can be a breeding ground for hate. But why do some people behave the way they do on social media?
In each episode, the BBC's Disinf…
2 years, 2 months ago