Why Do You Hate Me? USA: Introducing... Why Do You Hate Me? USA
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BBC
4.0 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
For the second series of BBC Radio 4’s Why Do You Hate Me, disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring heads to the USA. She investigates the social media backdrop to the presidential election, interrogating different online phenomena and cases of hate – looking at how they could potentially influence the way people vote.
Marianna travels from Colorado to Baltimore and New York, tracking down both those harmed and causing harm on social media. She investigates everything from extreme hate targeting officials and students, to online fandoms, deepfakes and corrosive conspiracy theories.
Over five episodes, she uncovers why people behave the way they do on social media during a heated presidential race. Each episode exposes the real-world consequences of what happens in this online world and its potential impact on society and democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi, I'm Mariana Spring. |
| 0:08.3 | I investigate social media at the BBC. |
| 0:11.8 | Sometimes my job takes me deep inside murky virtual worlds. |
| 0:17.3 | But right now, I'm standing barefoot in a freezing waterfall in the Rocky Mountains. |
| 0:22.9 | I think it's just super important to really connect to that high vibrational frequency of this natural spring. |
| 0:30.0 | But I'm not here for the wellness vibe. |
| 0:33.0 | If you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened. |
| 0:38.3 | America is reeling tonight from an assassinate. you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened. |
| 0:43.3 | America is reeling tonight from an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. |
| 0:52.3 | It's the presidential election this year in the US, and it hasn't exactly been quiet. |
| 1:02.0 | President Joe Biden has just announced that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. |
| 1:03.7 | Joe Biden can't speak clearly. |
| 1:08.5 | With the COVID, excuse me with dealing with. |
| 1:11.2 | He quit because he was losing. |
| 1:12.7 | Big things are happening. |
| 1:15.3 | And before they even make the headlines, |
| 1:18.4 | they've already taken off in the social media world. |
| 1:19.2 | It's Kamala. Kamala Harris. |
| 1:20.9 | My mother used to say to us, |
| 1:22.8 | you think you just fell out of a coconut tree? |
| 1:25.2 | We were effectively run in this country |
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