Disaster Trolls: Bonus: Remember My Name
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BBC
4.0 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Marianna Spring returns to her investigation into conspiracy theories about UK terror attack victims, and reports on moves to hold those responsible for spreading them to account.
Disaster Trolls revealed how people caught up in the Manchester Arena bombing suffered years of online abuse and threats as a result of false claims that they were “crisis actors” who faked the attack.
In this new episode, Marianna discovers what has changed for some of the people who featured in the original series.
She also reports on developments in efforts to hold to account those who spread extreme conspiracy theories, and asks questions about how to tackle harmful disinformation while protecting freedom of expression at the same time.
This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence.
Presenter: Marianna Spring Producer: Olivia Lace-Evans Editor: Ed Main
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A group of men ran in with machetes. |
| 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. |
| 0:35.9 | Were you ever bullied as a kid? |
| 0:39.4 | Maybe you were pushed down in the playground, ganged up on, teased and taunted in class. |
| 0:45.4 | And that filled you with a sense of rage, of injustice, a feeling of powerlessness. |
| 0:52.1 | But what if you could confront those bullies and hold them to account? |
| 0:57.6 | I'm not having people like Richard bullying people, people who can't stand up for themselves, |
| 1:03.2 | people who don't have a voice. That's what Martin Hibbert plans to do. He's not a kid, |
| 1:09.4 | and this isn't a school playground. Martin and his |
| 1:12.8 | daughter Eve survived the bombing at the Manchester Arena in 2017. A conspiracy theorist |
| 1:19.1 | called Richard D. Hall questioned their injuries and even admitted to spying on Eve from a vehicle |
| 1:25.1 | parked outside her home to see if she was lying. |
| 1:29.2 | Now, Martin is taking hall to court. |
| 1:32.7 | He says this fight isn't just for him. |
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