Why Do You Hate Me?: 3. Sadiq Khan: I Didn’t Say That!
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BBC
4.0 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Last November, a faked audio clip of London's mayor went viral. Marianna Spring talks to Sadiq Khan about the impact it had and tracks down it's suspected creator.
The clip used artificial intelligence to create a replica of Mr Khan's voice saying words scripted by the faker, disparaging Remembrance weekend with an expletive and calling for pro-Palestinian marches to take precedence.
In this series, Why Do You Hate Me?, Marianna Spring delves into her inbox to investigate extraordinary cases of online hate like this one. She meets the people at the heart of the conflicts, and in some cases brings them together, to see if understanding – even forgiveness – is ever possible.
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Host: Marianna Spring Producer: Ben Carter Editor: Sam Bonham Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell Production co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge
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| 0:15.2 | I'll walk you through a big money saving topic step by step. |
| 0:18.4 | Then in question time, you set the agenda and ask whatever's on your mind. |
| 0:22.5 | Would you rather be locked in an empty shopping centre with a thousand snakes or just one gorilla? |
| 0:27.6 | Within reason. |
| 0:28.6 | The Martin Lewis podcast, listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.4 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:37.8 | Why should Londoners cancel the Palestinian March on Saturday? |
| 0:41.6 | I don't give a flying shit about the Remembrance Weekend. |
| 0:44.3 | What's important and paramount is the one million man Palestinian March takes place on Saturday. |
| 0:51.6 | There was this video circulating, audio really, on Twitter of me claiming, |
| 0:57.2 | Armistice Day doesn't matter. |
| 0:58.8 | Protest for Palestine is far more important. |
| 1:01.4 | And you'd usually think, well, it's clearly a fake, insignificant. |
| 1:04.8 | And I listened to it. |
| 1:06.0 | And the person voicing me, I've got to be honest, did sound a lot like me. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm Marianna Spring, the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm one of the most trolled journalists at the BBC, and I get a lot of messages. |
| 1:21.7 | Some are abusive, but others are about post people want me to investigate, |
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