Why Do You Hate Me?: 4. I Received Online Death Threats And The Premier League Caught My Troll
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2.8 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Premier League has told the BBC it’s fighting a rise in social media threats against both its players and their families, with a team dedicated to hunting down online trolls. The BBC’s Disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring goes inside the team for the first time, talks to striker Neal Maupay about social media abuse - and tracks down the man they helped convict for threatening him.
In this series, Why Do You Hate Me?, Marianna 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: Neil Churchill Production co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge
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| 0:40.5 | For me, it started when I was at Brighton. |
| 0:43.0 | We played against Arsenal. |
| 0:44.6 | That was the first game when we started the season after the first COVID lockdown. |
| 0:52.5 | It's June 2020. |
| 0:55.0 | The Premier League has just resumed matches after stopping for three months. |
| 0:59.4 | Fans still aren't allowed to watch from the stands. |
| 1:02.0 | So more than usual, they're glued to social media, posting about the game as it unfolds. |
| 1:09.5 | And broadcasters are using canned crowd noise to create atmosphere. |
| 1:13.6 | It's a fiercely competitive game and as striker Neil Mope tries to earn Brighton their first win of the year, he collides with Arsenal's goalkeeper. |
| 1:22.6 | Brighton have it on the halfway line. Davy proper floating one over the top of the Arsenal back for and burnt Leno had to come there to grab it. He's knocked out of the area |
| 1:30.4 | by Neil Mopai. Now Mopai had a definite right to challenge for that ball. He's caught Lano. He got injured. They came off. Go on Karen. He's hurt his knee, is he? Yeah, the way he landed then, I straight away, thought that's a bad thing. But it was just unfortunate contact, so I didn't get booked or whatever. |
| 1:44.3 | This is a game that Brighton desperately need to win, as they're caught up in a relegation battle. |
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