Disaster Trolls: 2. Sharpening the Spike
Martin and his daughter suffered life-changing injuries in the Manchester Arena bombing, but one conspiracy theorist claims to have gone to great lengths to try to prove otherwise.Eve, then 14, and he...
30 Okt 202214min
Disaster Trolls: 1. Darkness in the Glade of Light
Daren is haunted by his experience of the Manchester Arena bombing. So why do people taunt him with conspiracy theories which falsely claim the attack didn’t happen?On 22 May 2017, a terrorist bomb wa...
30 Okt 202215min
Disaster Trolls: Introducing... Disaster Trolls
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 in...
24 Okt 20222min
War on Truth: 9. Roddy: 'We don’t trust the media, so we became it'
Citizen journalism – reporting by self-taught people, often on the ground - can play a vital role in the coverage of conflict. However, not everyone who contributes to this coverage is as 'independent...
29 Apr 202216min
War on Truth: 8. Tetyana: ‘My son is the Snake Island hero’
On the first day of the war, Ukraine gained a new patriotic hero and Tetyana thought she had lost a son. But the story wasn't quite as it first seemed.Tetyana’s son, Roman became world famous for defi...
22 Apr 202215min
War on Truth: 7. Sergei: ‘It’s my duty to keep telling Russians the truth’
After Russia’s first independent radio station was taken off air by the Kremlin, the journalists who worked there are finding ways to get round censorship of the war in Ukraine.Sergei Buntman helped t...
14 Apr 202221min
War on Truth: 6. The View from the Other Side
Marianna Vishegirskaya is the pregnant woman who has unwittingly found herself at the centre of one of the most disputed events of the war.In a previous episode we looked at how Russia falsely accused...
8 Apr 202218min
War on Truth: 5. Rob: ‘Covid was a hoax, and so is the war’
What does the invasion of Ukraine have in common with the coronavirus pandemic?On the face of it not much at all, but disinformation about the war is also fuelling existing conspiracy movements around...
1 Apr 202217min
