Introducing...Who Trolled Amber?
Hoaxed
Tortoise Media
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Introducing..Who Trolled Amber?
What comes to mind when you think of Amber Heard? Liar? Survivor? Narcissist? Millions of us watched the celebrity trial of the century, Depp v Heard, in 2022. Amber Heard lost and Johnny Depp was vindicated. But what if Amber was actually the victim of an organised trolling campaign? What if the online hate against her was manufactured?
Alexi Mostrous, the reporter who brought you Sweet Bobby and Hoaxed, investigates what happened to Amber and who might have been responsible. It’s a story about how our own thoughts and opinions can be moulded without us even realising.
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Reporter and host: Alexi Mostrous
Producer: Xavier Greenwood
Editor: David Taylor
Narrative editor: Gary Marshall
Additional reporting: Katie Riley
Sound design: Karla Patella
Artwork: Jon Hill & Oscar Ingham
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| 0:00.0 | Tautus. |
| 0:09.8 | Hey, it's Alexi, the host of hoaxed. I'm really excited for you to hear my brand new podcast, |
| 0:16.1 | Who Trolled Amber? It's an investigation into the battle between Johnny Depp and Amber heard, looking at a |
| 0:22.6 | central question. Was Amber the victim of an organized trolling campaign? And if so, who was responsible? |
| 0:30.4 | Here's episode one. I hope you enjoy it. Just a warning before we start, this series contains |
| 0:36.9 | strong language and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:40.3 | There was a moment where I got up one day and I got on social media, I got on Twitter, |
| 0:45.3 | and I just noticed that my feed was just absolutely overrun with content. |
| 0:51.3 | This story starts with a spy. |
| 0:57.4 | Well, a former spy. |
| 0:59.9 | And I didn't have a whole lot of interest in learning much more about it than what I'd |
| 1:04.1 | seen in the headlines. |
| 1:04.9 | Like, I'm not particularly interested in celebrity culture stuff. |
| 1:09.5 | Someone who spends a lot of time online. |
| 1:13.2 | And so I started to try to excise that content from my timeline. |
| 1:17.5 | And it became apparent fairly quickly within a couple of days because I could feel myself |
| 1:22.1 | getting frustrated that that was not working, which is unusual. |
| 1:27.3 | I'm actively seeking to not see this stuff, and it is still filling up my feed. |
| 1:32.9 | And, you know, being a career investigator, my brain kind of went, oh, there's something |
| 1:39.4 | going on here. |
| 1:41.7 | Daniel Mackey used to work for the Canadian government. |
| 1:44.4 | I can't really go into more detail than that, but he specialises in something called open |
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