Introducing... Why Do You Hate Me? USA
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Meet Camille and ‘Wild Mother’. Both women love nature, animals, and the outdoors. Both women also believe the assassination attempts on Donald Trump were staged – but have very different political views. Why do people believe the things they do? And what role do social media sites – and their algorithms – play?
In this series, BBC disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring travels to the United States to investigate the social media backdrop to the 2024 presidential election and explore the different ways in which what is happening online is influencing the campaign offline.
Marianna starts her journey in Colorado, looking at how conspiracy theories have spread so far across the political spectrum in the US. She interrogates the consequences for Camille, ‘Wild Mother’, and the upcoming election.
Host: Marianna Spring Producers: Daniel Wittenberg & Emma Close Story Editor: Matt Willis Editor: Sam Bonham Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts Sound Designer: Tony Churnside Production Co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi Americasters, it's me, Mariana, aka Misinformation, |
| 0:08.6 | and I want to tell you a bit about my new podcast series, |
| 0:11.0 | Why Do You Hate Me USA. |
| 0:12.7 | It's investigating the social media backdrop |
| 0:15.2 | to this presidential election. |
| 0:17.0 | Because actually, rather than the campaigns |
| 0:19.2 | just unfolding on our social media feeds, |
| 0:21.3 | a lot of what happens in the online world can feed into the campaigns |
| 0:24.9 | offline. The tagline is, it's social media's world and the election is just living in it. |
| 0:29.6 | To begin with, I want to take you into the worlds of Wild Mother and Camille. |
| 0:33.6 | They have very different political opinions but they both believe evidence-free conspiracy theories |
| 0:38.6 | about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in July. |
| 0:41.7 | How did they get there? Why do they believe this? And what role |
| 0:44.5 | does social media play in shaping what they think? This is episode one. |
| 0:54.0 | Why is without shoes best? Because that's the only way to really experience this waterfall. |
| 0:58.0 | The water is so cold. |
| 1:01.0 | I think it's just super important to really connect to that high vibrational |
| 1:05.7 | frequency of this natural spring. I never expected to find myself standing barefoot in a waterfall in the mountains of Colorado. |
| 1:17.2 | But here I am because I want to understand why a woman named Desireeret calls herself wild mother on social media. |
| 1:27.0 | I actually walked to this waterfall every day during my pregnancy, |
| 1:30.0 | which is why it was so important for me once my daughter turned a year old to use this as the |
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