Why Do You Hate Me? USA: 2. Counting The Threats: 'I just work in IT – why am I getting threats from election deniers?'
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2.8 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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What are the real-world consequences of the belief that almost anything and everything can be staged or rigged – from assassination attempts to elections? In Why Do You Hate Me? USA, BBC disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring is investigating how what’s happening online can shape the 2024 presidential election. In this episode, Marianna continues her journey through Colorado to hear about what happens when some people no longer trust systems and institutions – and then send hate to the people they see complicit in unproven plots and conspiracies. She meets the election workers who feared for their safety after Donald Trump and some of his supporters falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen and public officials were overwhelmed with abuse and threats online. Could it possibly get worse this time around? Host: Marianna Spring Producer: Daniel Wittenberg Story Editor: Matt Willis Editor: Sam Bonham Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts Sound Designer: Tony Churnside Production Co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge
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| 0:40.3 | Welcome to the window this basement. Very fancy. |
| 0:43.3 | Why does it have no windows? |
| 0:45.8 | It's more secure. |
| 0:47.8 | If someone was going to try and get in here, it would be a lot harder than if we were on a ground floor. |
| 0:53.0 | My journey through Colorado's |
| 0:54.9 | political conspiracy land has already taken me to a waterfall in the Rocky Mountains. Now, I've |
| 1:01.6 | ended up underground in this basement of a very square building. We're going to another secure room |
| 1:09.9 | that we are calling ballot processing. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm just outside a city called Golden, and I'm with Amanda Gonzalez, who's in charge of running local and national elections in this county. |
| 1:20.9 | You would have dozens, if not hundreds, of election judges walking around. |
| 1:27.2 | Amanda's wearing a sharpsuit and little stiletto heels that click as we walk along a corridor |
| 1:32.4 | which is very concrete. Security here is really tight. That's because this is where the votes |
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