Disaster Trolls: 4. Hall’s Stall
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BBC
2.8 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Marianna Spring finally comes face to face with Richard D Hall. Will she be able to get answers for the terror survivors targeted by his conspiracy theories?
In earlier episodes, we heard how Hall has spread false claims that the Manchester Arena bombing and other terror attacks were faked or actually carried out by the government. He even boasted about placing a hidden camera outside the home of a teenage survivor to try to prove her injuries weren’t real.
He even describes how he tracks down survivors of the attack to determine whether it was faked. When Hall repeatedly refuses to be interviewed, Marianna heads to Wales to visit the market stall where he sells his merchandise.
In this BBC Radio 4 podcast series, Marianna Spring, the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent, investigates how online trolls deepen the trauma suffered by people caught up in terror attacks and other horrific events.
This episode contains audio from Richard D Hall’s website.
Presenter: Marianna Spring Producer: Ant Adeane Editor: Ed Main
Transcript
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| 0:03.8 | I'm Livy Haydock, and from BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live, |
| 0:08.6 | this is gangster, the story of Georgie Pye. |
| 0:13.2 | The scene of the killing near a Chinese bookshop is being flooded with detectives. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the world of the triads. |
| 0:19.6 | If the triads are coming out of you, you're done. |
| 0:21.5 | Where loyalty is sworn in blood. |
| 0:24.8 | Gangster, the story of Georgie Pye. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.5 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm at a multi-story shopping shopping centre in a town in South Wales. |
| 0:43.0 | It's a Friday morning and it's busy. |
| 0:45.6 | But as I rise higher through the different floors, the crowds begin to thin out. |
| 0:51.8 | The person I've come to find is Richard D. Hall. |
| 0:58.7 | He's someone who spread conspiracy theories, saying that atrocities like the Manchester |
| 1:03.3 | Arena bombing were faked by the government. |
| 1:06.1 | The children who were killed are really alive and living overseas, and he's even boasted about hiding a camera outside a survivor's home. |
| 1:14.2 | I've shortened a spike onto the end, |
| 1:16.3 | so I can just stick that in the ground in order to surveil our subjects. |
| 1:22.1 | Now, finally, I'm going to try to come face-to-face with Hall |
| 1:26.0 | and maybe get some answers for the people he's targeted. |
| 1:31.3 | I want to find out why he's doing this, |
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