Extreme polarization and trolling, uninhibited racism and anti-Semitism, large-scale disinformation: journalists have been saying for months that they're going to leave ... but everyone is still on X,...
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. She is the author of Among the Trolls: My Journey Through Conspiracyland (Atlantic Books, March 2024).
Events IJF 2024
Fighting gendered disinformation: how women journalists stand up to dictators, shadowy foreign agents and digital conspiracy networks
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...
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...
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