Marianna in Conspiracyland 1: Bonus: Irish Conspiracyland
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BBC
2.8 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Marianna travels to Dublin to investigate a court case unfolding against the Irish Light conspiracy theory newspaper. Edel Campbell and her lawyer have been targeted by an extreme campaign of abuse after suing The Light which falsely claimed Edel’s son Diego died from a Covid vaccine, when in reality he had died by suicide. Conspiracy theorists worldwide have used dozens of tragic deaths to spread vaccine misinformation. This case is thought to be the first where a relative has sued. And what is the cost of taking action like this?
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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. |
| 0:31.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:38.2 | Loved his family so much. |
| 0:40.5 | Didn't cause any grief to anybody or annoyance. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, he had some fun down through the years. |
| 0:45.2 | Don't be all, you know. |
| 0:46.6 | He was great. |
| 0:47.7 | And so friendly, everywhere you went, people would be saying, |
| 0:50.5 | such a well-mannered wee boy and always saying hello and polite. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, we miss him very very much this is adele campbell she's talking about her son diego who died by suicide in august 2021 we didn't know he |
| 1:06.8 | was suffering we didn't know there was anything wrong. That same day he had paid for a |
| 1:11.6 | year's prescription of his PlayStation, which was something that he would never have done, you know. |
| 1:15.7 | He was in fantastic for him. Like, if I would have known that last phone call, I wouldn't have |
| 1:21.5 | hung up the phone. I would have done a million and one thing's different, but I can't change any of that now. |
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