Marianna in Conspiracyland - Is there anyone who works harder than Marianna Spring? The BBC’s Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent is the co-host of Americast and made documentaries for Panorama. As well as that, she’s made several compelling BBC Sounds series exploring the damage caused by disinformation and conspiracy theories, the latest of which was released just this week.
In this new series, Spring investigates The Light, a conspiracy theory newspaper, and how it has been a factor in the radicalisation that it has caused.
“The Light’s tagline is ‘the uncensored truth,’” says Spring. “It opposes traditional media and believes that journalists like me are lying about what is happening in the world.” The series, broken up into 15 minute episodes, are compelling.
Links
- BBC journalist Marianna Spring is target of more than 80 per cent of corporation’s online abuse (The Independent)
Reviews
- Marianna in Conspiracyland Review in The Observer (Miranda Sawyer)
- Marianna in Conspiracyland Review in Rapscallion Magazine (Harry Mottram)
- Marianna in Conspiracyland Review in The Critic (Sebastian Millbank)
