Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa learned how to stand up to a dictator when she was targeted by gendered disinformation linked to former president Rodrigo Duterte. The BBC’s Marianna Spring ha...
Marianna Spring
Marianna Spring is the BBC's Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent. She investigates the real-world consequences of online disinformation, trolling and all that’s bad on social media across podcasts, TV current affairs, BBC news programmes and radio.
Events IJF 2023
Online violence against women journalists: a global scourge that demands urgent action
Women journalists are increasingly the targets of online violence connected to orchestrated disinformation campaigns waged by states, political actors, conspiracy networks and misogynists. They have b...
Reporting on the global effects of technology challenges journalists to understand wildly diverse contexts of technology adoption. It includes the on-the-ground impact of technologies such as biometri...
