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Why do you hate me?

Well, I hope you don't.

But it turns out quite a few people do.

I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent.

And I get trolled a lot.

I've learned firsthand that the online world can be a breeding ground for hate.

But why do some people behave the way they do on social media?

In this series, I'm diving into my inbox

and investigating some of the most extraordinary cases of online hate to find out.

I'm meeting the people at the heart of these conflicts and in some cases bringing them together

to see if understanding even forgiveness is ever possible.

I'm tracking down the deep fakers.

Whether fake or not, it's what we all know so deep things. The conspiracy theorists. The fact that people come up with conspiracy theories, it's not something that's going to go away. It's normal for us to question and to try to fill in gaps with story. You can't be human without that. The impersonators. You apologize to the McCannes. Why did you do that? I did it because so many people said that you heard McCannes, you heard McCannes. So I wanted to write it. I never meant to hurt anyone. The football trolls. Trolls is probably too nice an expression for the people saying this form of abuse because some of the content that we see in the abuse that it's sent in. It's truly horrific.

And the people who've been harmed.

I mean, I've got two daughters. I've got a wife. I've got siblings. I've got a mum.

I've got friends who love me, staff who love me. It's really upset for them.

During the times when you weren't mentally well with all this, I believe, when I was talking on social media, that has been tracked by

America.

Sometimes the intention of people online is to spread hate. Sometimes they might have taken an

obsession too far. Others actually think they're trying to help. This matters, because online

hate can have consequences for everyone involved.

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