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Marianna Spring

March 2024

  • Anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protest, in London<br>Demonstrators attend an anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protest, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in London, Britain, May 29, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

    Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring review – into the cesspit of online hatred

    An unflinching exploration of conspiracy theories and their knock-on effects also makes heroic attempts to understand the people behind them

February 2024

  • Marianna Spring photographed by Sophia Evans for the Observer New Review

    Observer New Review Q&A
    BBC disinformation reporter Marianna Spring: ‘My approach to fear is to try to make sense of it’

    The broadcaster on dealing with abuse, the power of the Barbie movie, and watching Spurs with her dad

September 2023

  • The artist’s life and relationships come under the spotlight in Picasso: Beauty and The Beast on BBC Two.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Picasso’s family members speak out about his complicated persona

    This three-parter starts in the brothels the artist visited as a young man. Plus: how TikTok has triggered riots. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Notes and photos collected in a scrapbook by Uncle Roger ‘Pigeon’ Jarrett.

    Five Great Reads newsletter
    Five Great Reads: buried horrors, catching out ChatGPT and tools from a war zone

    Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey
  • A portrait of Marianna Spring.

    The G2 interview
    The BBC’s Marianna Spring: ‘The more violent the rhetoric, the more important it is I expose it’

    The broadcaster’s disinformation and social media correspondent spends her time pursuing trolls and dismantling conspiracy theories. In return she is abused, slandered, threatened. She talks about battling cranks, extremists – and Elon Musk

June 2023

  • Marianna Spring.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Marianna in Conspiracyland; Women of Web3; Gateway: Cocaine, Murder & Dirty Money in Europe; The Archers

    Marianna Spring keeps her cool with conspiracy mongers; Lauren Ingram guides (some of) us into the metaverse; a drug-smuggling tale is well told; and the dreaded Rob returns to Ambridge

December 2022

  • ‘Tireless’: the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent, Marianna Spring

    Observer critics' review of 2022
    Radio and podcasts: Miranda Sawyer’s 10 best listens of 2022

    Brilliant audio really can be about anything, whether it’s disinformation, the Ukrainian frontline, gendered violence, cancer, periods, black British music… or cuckoo clocks

November 2022

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    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Case 63; Scott Mills; Disaster Trolls

    Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac add star power to a thrilling drama podcast; Scott Mills smooths his way into a new slot; and Marianna Spring confronts a conspiracy troll

September 2022

  • Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel pose against a yellow background

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The News Agents; Americast – review

    The big beasts of news podcasting go head to head, with Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel’s new show facing off against the new hosts of their old one

February 2022

  • Reporter Marianna Spring, Death By Conspiracy? – BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in radio: Death by Conspiracy; Science Vs (Joe Rogan: The Malone Interview); Mission Transmission

    Marianna Spring tackles Covid misinformation; Wendy Zukerman and Rose Rimler take Joe Rogan apart; and FunKids goes boldly and delightfully into space
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