Why Do You Hate Me?: 1. I Regret Posting Online That I Was Madeleine McCann
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BBC
2.8 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When Julia Wandelt posted on social media that she believed she was Madeleine McCann, she became a lightning rod for online anger. In the first of a new series exploring extraordinary cases of online hate and the possibility of forgiveness, Marianna Spring, the BBC's Disinformation and social media correspondent, speaks to Julia about her motives and regrets.
Listen to more episodes of Why Do You Hate Me on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. For this series, Marianna Spring (one of the most trolled BBC journalists) dives into her inbox and investigates a different extraordinary case of online hate to find out. She meets the people at the heart of these conflicts, and in some cases brings them together, to see if understanding - even forgiveness - is ever possible. Subscribe to BBC Sounds to hear the episodes first.
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If you have been affected by some of the issues raised in this programme, please visit bbc.co.uk/actionline.
Host: Marianna Spring Producer: Ben Carter Editor: Sam Bonham Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell Production co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge
Archive credits: Peteski Productions distributed through CBS Media Ventures.
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| 0:00.0 | An early start here. |
| 0:02.7 | It's time to kick off. |
| 0:04.0 | Your day. Morning! |
| 0:05.8 | What a line-up. |
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| 0:08.2 | We do get some great guests on the show. |
| 0:10.1 | The crowd is loving this. |
| 0:12.2 | Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind. |
| 0:14.1 | From morning chaos to match day commentary. |
| 0:17.6 | And everything in between. |
| 0:19.0 | BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:32.3 | Hi, I'm Mariana Spring. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm the BBC's first ever disinformation and social media correspondent. |
| 0:40.3 | And for the last four years, I've been investigating some of the harmful content that you see online. |
| 0:47.4 | The reporting I do has made me a prime target for trolls. I get loads of messages, many of them insults and abuse. |
| 0:56.6 | But so much of my work also begins with my inbox. Some of the most interesting messages I |
| 1:02.8 | receive are from people raising the alarm over particular posts and people they've come across |
| 1:08.3 | online. |
| 1:11.0 | In this new series, Radio 4's Why Do You Hate Me? |
| 1:14.9 | I'm delving into my inbox and investigating some of the most extraordinary cases of online hate |
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