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18/11/2022

Andrea Catherwood on reporting conspiracy theories with 麻豆社 Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring, recovering conspiracist Brent Lee and 麻豆社 Monitoring's Olga Robinson.

Radio 4 series Disaster Trolls investigates how victims of the Manchester Arena bombing and other UK terror attacks have been targeted by conspiracy theorists. Andrea Catherwood puts listeners' comments to 麻豆社 Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent Marianna Spring and recovering conspiracist Brent Lee.

Assistant Editor, 麻豆社 Monitoring, Olga Robinson joins Andrea to talk about her work helping News teams report on disinformation and conspiracy theories.

Also, the 麻豆社 has been receiving letters from listeners since it started broadcasting 100 years ago. Former 麻豆社 Producer Colin Shindler has collected classics for his book 鈥淚 am Sure I Speak for Many Others" and he shares them with Andrea.

And we hear what listeners have had to say about 麻豆社 Radio coverage of the recent Just Stop Oil protests on the M25.

Presented by Andrea Catherwood
Produced by Gill Davies
A Whistledown Scotland production for 麻豆社 Radio 4

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28 minutes

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Sun 20 Nov 2022 20:00

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  • Fri 18 Nov 2022 16:30
  • Sun 20 Nov 2022 20:00

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