steve fifield's response... david taylor also spotted a problem.roberts summed up like this. now, with fake news on the rise over issues such as covid and the validity of the last american presidential election, it's a sign of the times that the bbc now has a disinformation correspondent — marianna spring. last month she presented an edition of panorama which explored the conspiracy theory that terrorist attacks, such as the manchester arena bombing of 2017, never took place and were actually staged by a group of so—called crisis actors. tonight on panorama... emergency services are dealing with an incident near manchester victoria station. ..the people who deny these terrible events ever took place. i've been trying to find - evidence of a real explosion and evidence of a real bomb, and i haven't found any. - 27 people — 20 of them children — have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a primary school in the state of... no—one died in 2012 in sandy hook. - we reveal how the twisted world of disaster trolls has arrived in the uk. the views of t

steve fifield's response: david taylor also spotted a problem.ing for newsnight and the podcast americast online profiles for five fictional american voters to find out what they're exposed to and recommended across social media. when donald trumpjr — the son of the former president — found out about this approach, he posted this response on twitter: well, marianna spring was undeterred, responding: well, marianna spring joins me now in the studio. thank you so much for coming on newswatch. what are we talking about when we're talking about disinformation in news? i think it's really important to think about how disinformation tends to be deliberate misleading of people, promoting conspiracy theories or falsehoods that can cause serious, real—world harm, and a lot of the focus that i have in this job is understanding how disinformation spreads and how it affects people — particularly those who are targeted by it — falsehoods about the pandemic, the war in ukraine. these aren't fringe beliefs any more. these aren't sort of small internet forums wh