Electioncast: How did social media shape the election?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

All the things we learnt from the undercover voters in the election.

On this episode of Newscast, Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent Marianna Spring joins Adam to explain what we learnt from the undercover voters over the past few weeks.

Using data from the National Centre for Social Research, Marianna set up fictional social media profiles for twenty four undercover voters based in eight constituencies around the UK, and gained an insight into voters' digital worlds during the election.

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Gemma Roper. George Dabby and Cordelia Hemming are the Undercover Voter producers. The technical producer is Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello, welcome to a bonus episode where we catch up with Mariana Spring,
0:08.0	misinformation, and her 24 undercover voters
0:11.8	as we uncover what the undercover voters uncovered about how our
0:17.2	elections are fought online these days as our election draws to a close.
0:20.9	Newscast.
0:21.9	Newscast from the BBC.
0:24.0	People do call me the short.
0:25.0	Jenny elect.
0:26.0	Whaling day will be on Thursday the 4th of July.
0:29.0	No way.
0:30.0	Thank God about town.
0:31.0	It's going to be a very long six weeks.
0:34.0	I was ringing my underpants out.
0:35.0	So the downy stream.
0:37.0	Campaigns can feel very long and you voters can be a volatile bunch. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio.
0:45.0	And it is Mariana also in the newscast studio.
0:47.0	We never came up with the name for where the undercover voters are, like undercover voter towers.
0:52.0	Oh, that's what you mean like headquarters.
0:54.5	Yeah, except there.
0:55.5	It sounds a bit like a bot farm if we do that and that probably gets us into tricky
0:58.8	territory because they are crucially private with no friends
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