Marianna Spring

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Person.png Marianna Spring   Instagram LinkedIn TwitterRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(journalist, propagandist, presenter, spook?)
Marianna Spring.jpg
Born21 February 1996
Alma materPembroke College (Oxford)
Interests • conspiracy theories
• fake news
• “hate speech”
• internet censorship
• “disinformation”
• social media
Interest of"Philip Cross"
BBC "disinformation" specialist. When criticised online for her "fact checking", Internet censorship is her answer.

Employment.png Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent

In office
March 2020 - Present
EmployerBBC

Marianna Spring is a UK journalist and suspected spook[1][2] seeking to promote internet censorship. She works with BBC/Verify.[3]

Education

She studied French and Russian at Pembroke College, Oxford, where she wrote for the college newspaper, working in France and Russia in her year out, as a journalist for The Moscow Times, The Local and Le Tarn Libre.[4]

Kit Klarenberg pointed out that "Her LinkedIn profile has been cached by the Internet Archive suspiciously few times since its creation, suggesting certain captures may have been scrubbed upon request."[5]

Career

In December 2020 she was advising people on how to "talk to people about conspiracy theories without ruining Christmas".[6]

In March 2023 she was the BBC’s Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent:[7]

Introducing the new service on the BBC Breakfast morning show, “disinformation and social media correspondent” Marianna Spring gave a flavour of what was in store. The BBC’s own, all-too-visible failings appeared far from her thoughts.
She drew digital arrows on a screen, creating a sinister network of ties between “far-right figures” with “foreign links” on one side, and a “UK conspiracy movement” and “alternative media” on the other.
If anyone assumed BBC/Verify would be scrutinising the long track record of the BBC and the rest of the UK’s establishment media in misleading audiences, they look set to be sorely disappointed. Even Spring’s job title connects disinformation specifically to social media rather than to the so-called “legacy media” to which she belongs.[8]

In August 2023, The Telegraph reported that 80% of abuse directed at BBC journalists had been targeted at Spring.[9]

Awards

Spring was awarded the Ronnie Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting in 2017[10] and included in Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2021.[11]

 

Documents by Marianna Spring

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:I get abuse and threats online - why can't it be stopped?Article18 October 2021BBC
Demos
"Conspiracy theory"
"Disinformation"
Internet/Censorship
Troll
Center for Countering Digital Hate
Algorithm manipulation
Big Tech
"Anti-vaxxer"
Plymouth shooting
The Disinformation Specialist at the BBC gets criticism online for her "fact checking". Internet censorship is the answer.
Document:MPs given guide to spotting conspiracy theoriesArticle10 May 2024Institute for Strategic Dialogue
"Conspiracy theory"
"Disinformation"
Chemtrails
Ukraine
New world order
5G
Penny Mordaunt
QAnon
"COVID-19/Vaccine"
Vaccine/Censorship
AstraZeneca
The Great Reset
Climate lockdown
Andrew Bridgen
15-minute city
Great Replacement
Tell MAMA
Antisemitism Policy Trust
Penny Mordaunt has commissioned a booklet for MPs on conspiracy theories.
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