My fake news whodunnit

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When a name very similar to journalist Michelle Madsen’s was used as the cover for a fake news hatchet job on a Senegalese politician, she found herself entangled in a web of deception that she is seeking to unravel.

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0:00.0	After an explosion in space, now it's the climax of the rescue mission.
0:05.4	Can the astronauts be brought home safely?
0:08.7	What could we have missed?
0:10.8	This can't be happening.
0:14.0	You could hear a pin drop. 13 minutes to the moon from the BBC World Service, the final episode.
0:25.0	Available now.
0:27.0	Who the hell is Michel Danzen?
0:31.0	Thank you for downloading the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:36.6	I'm Michelle Madsen and in my fake news who done it I'm going to try and find out who wrote
0:42.1	a viral news story in my name or a name very similar to mine.
0:47.0	Everyone was looking for me.
0:51.0	It was the number one priority of all newspaper. Let's find missile damson.
0:59.0	It's a journey that takes me deep into allegations of corruption between Senegalese politicians
1:04.6	in the global oil industry and the murky world of political campaigning.
1:20.0	Join me as I try to find out where this story came from and who is Michelle Damson? I don't know Michelle Damson.
1:25.0	No. I don't know him. I don't know who is this guy.
1:29.0	Who the hell is Michel Damson?
1:34.0	My name is Michelle Madsen.
1:37.0	I'm Michelle Madsen.
1:38.0	Maxin, okay.
1:40.0	It's difficult, isn't it?
1:42.0	Michelle Damson? Michelle Madsen?
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