![]() At face value, this may seem like a fairly standard quest for a journalist, albeit a noble one - a bit like investigating fraudsters or corrupt politicians, in order to bring their misdeeds and lies into the light.īut there’s at least one big difference. In this week’s interview, Spring described her job for the BBC as “interrogating how mistruths or trolling or abuse online can affect real people, and then to investigate and hold to account the social media companies, policy makers, law enforcement…”. More than that: through observing her output, I’ve become convinced that the BBC should not have a specialist “Disinformation Correspondent” at all. Despite our similarities, though, I remain unconvinced by her case for strong regulation. Indeed, she frequently uses such experiences as a superficially compelling peg for many of her stories. Like me, Spring receives a lot of online misrepresentation and criticism in her professional role. According to Spring, online disinformation and hate speech is getting worse, and it’s the responsibility of social media platforms to regulate it more heavily. In an interview and an accompanying feature published this week, Marianna Spring reiterates a narrative about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter that she first aired on Panorama a few weeks back. Kathleen Stock has written an excellent piece in UnHerd taking issue with the latest work of the BBC’s ‘Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent’ Marianna Spring, accusing her of spreading ‘disinformation’ in her own right.
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