Marianna Spring

Marianna Spring      (journalist, propagandist, presenter)
Alma mater	Pembroke 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.  Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent In office March 2020 - Present Employer BBC

Marianna Spring is a UK journalist seeking to promote internet censorship. She works with BBC/Verify.

Education

She studied French and Russian at Pembroke College, Oxford, matriculating in 2014, at a time when former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove was its master. 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."

Career

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

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

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 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.

 

A Document by Marianna Spring

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:I get abuse and threats online - why can't it be stopped?	Article	18 October 2021	BBC "Disinformation" "Conspiracy theory" Troll Demos Center for Countering Digital Hate Big Tech Internet/Censorship Plymouth shooting Algorithm manipulation "Anti-vaxxer"	The Disinformation Specialist at the BBC gets criticism online for her "fact checking". Internet censorship is the answer.

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