Born in south-west London in 1996, Marianna Spring was appointed the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent in March 2020. Co-host of the Americast podcast and a Panorama presenter, her first book, Among the Trolls, is published by Atlantic next month, while her new Radio 4 series, Why Do You Hate Me?, exploring examples of online hate and forgiveness, is out now.
Your book begins with you at five years old hearing about the 9/11 attacks. What kind of child were you?
The very chatty child who the teachers were trying to get to stop talking. I had this little notebook for writing stories and read them to my parents and my poor sister on car trips. They’d have music on quietly, and as I kept reading, I’d hear the music slowly becoming loud [laughs].
