Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? 5. Wish You Were Here
Joanne McNally Investigates
BBC
4.3 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Joanne was beginning to come to terms with the fact that this might all be nonsense. She turns her sights on who started this conspiracy. Where did it come from?
Joanne speaks to experts in online rumour spreading. She hears some extraordinary stories about how lies have gotten completely out of hand and become widely believed (to devastating effect.) Perhaps whoever started this had no idea it would go viral. We really should think more carefully about what we write on the internet…
Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates is a 6-part series produced by What’s The Story Sounds – for BBC Sounds and CBC.
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| 0:00.0 | from BBC Sounds and CBC Podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | I like to swear a lot. |
| 0:09.1 | The following podcast is presented by me. |
| 0:11.4 | Therefore, there will be swearing. |
| 0:13.8 | There will be swear words and there will be bad language, probably regularly. |
| 0:17.3 | If that sort of thing isn't for you, consider yourself warned. |
| 0:22.5 | It was the beginning of lockdown and everyone was very afraid of coronavirus. |
| 0:27.4 | Hayden Prouse is a satirist, forward slash comedian, forward slash funny man. |
| 0:32.4 | There was a lot of misinformation circulating and people were really sort of disillusioned with government and authority |
| 0:38.7 | figures and I think I like everyone was kind of panicking about that and wanted to kind of do |
| 0:47.5 | something to show how easy it was to spread misinformation. In 2020 Hayden sat by testing how easy it was to spread some nonsense. |
| 0:57.7 | Working erecting 5G masks on towers like the one behind me for the past few weeks while |
| 1:02.7 | everybody else has been in lockdown. |
| 1:04.4 | I just decided to see if I could spread a really, really silly conspiracy theory about |
| 1:09.6 | a piece of circuitry coming from a 5G tower, |
| 1:13.6 | having COV-19 written on it. |
| 1:15.7 | To prove his point, Hayden pretended to be from Liverpool. |
| 1:19.9 | That was the first bit of misinformation. |
| 1:22.4 | Then he pretended to be an engineer working on 5G telephone masks and claiming they were full of dangerous electronic circuitry. |
| 1:30.8 | And we don't crack open these kits because we're explicitly asked not to. |
| 1:35.9 | But perhaps the best thing is for me to show you. |
| 1:40.8 | There's a piece of fucking 5G kit and this has Cove 19 on it. |
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