Diving headfirst into 'Conspiracyland' with the BBC's Marianna Spring
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 1:14.0 | Most of us, and I'm guessing most of the listeners to this podcast, |
| 1:18.0 | regard people who fall for conspiracy theories with a mixture of amusement and contempt, there have been remarkably few attempts to find |
| 1:25.3 | out who these people are, why they start believing in these theories, and how social media |
| 1:31.1 | has encouraged them. But one woman who has been doing that is |
| 1:35.1 | Mariana Spring, the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent. She |
| 1:40.0 | spent the past four years digging deep into the worlds of trolls, grifters, malevolent influences |
| 1:46.2 | and the people who follow them. And she joins me in the studio today. |
| 1:49.7 | Welcome to the bunker, Mariana. Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:52.4 | It was really striking to me so much for having me. |
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