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Disaster Deniers: Hunting the Trolls

As US conspiracist Alex Jones is ordered to pay nearly $1bn to families of the Sandy Hook shooting after claiming it was a hoax, Marianna Spring investigates 'disaster trolls'.

Panorama investigates how survivors of major terror attacks are hounded and abused by conspiracy theorists who claim they are 'crisis actors'. US conspiracist Alex Jones has just been ordered to pay nearly $1bn to families of the Sandy Hook school shooting after claiming the attack was a hoax. Now the 91热爆's disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring hunts the disaster trolls who target survivors of terror attacks in the UK and reveals new research about the popularity of these beliefs.

29 minutes

Last on

Sun 6 Nov 2022 18:30GMT

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Role Contributor
Reporter Marianna Spring
Director Alys Cummings
Producer Alys Cummings
Executive Producer Tom Stone
Editor Karen Wightman

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