Disaster Trolls

A podcast by BBC Radio 4

Categories:

Society & Culture

16 Episodes

  1. Moving to Marianna In Conspiracyland

    Published: 9/10/2024

  2. Why Do You Hate Me? Episode 1

    Published: 2/7/2024

  3. Introducing Marianna in Conspiracyland

    Published: 6/15/2023

  4. Remember my name

    Published: 4/3/2023

  5. Bad People present True Crime Crackers 2022 ft. Disaster Trolls

    Published: 12/21/2022

  6. 10. The billion dollar question

    Published: 10/30/2022

  7. 9. What they don’t tell you about terror

    Published: 10/30/2022

  8. 8. I was a conspiracy theorist - get me out of here

    Published: 10/30/2022

  9. 7. I helped bring down Alex Jones

    Published: 10/30/2022

  10. 6. The visitor

    Published: 10/30/2022

  11. 5. Who believes this stuff?

    Published: 10/30/2022

  12. 4. Hall’s stall

    Published: 10/30/2022

  13. 3. The insider

    Published: 10/30/2022

  14. 2. Sharpening the spike

    Published: 10/30/2022

  15. 1. Darkness in the Glade of Light

    Published: 10/30/2022

  16. The worst day of your life didn’t happen

    Published: 10/24/2022

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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.