BBC journalist Marianna Spring is target of more than 80 per cent of corporation’s online abuse

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Marianna Spring, the BBC’s first disinformation and social media correspondent, has revealed that she receives 80 per cent of all abuse flagged within the corporation.

Spring, 27, hosts the BBC Sounds podcast Marianna in Conspiracyland and appeared in a Panorama documentary about the rise in hate speech on Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover earlier this year, titled “Elon Musk’s Twitter Storm”.