On a cold winter day in 2020, the journalist Marianna Spring sets out to join an anti-lockdown rally in Brighton. She’s there to speak to people who view journalists as the “enemy of the people”, and the BBC as “Satan’s advocates”. Many of them hate her personally. For not only is Spring a successful young and female journalist – which in itself makes her a target for online trolls – but to those inhabiting “Conspiracyland”, as Spring calls it, she has one of the most controversial jobs in the w
I first met Martin Hibbert one day in August. He was one of the people who survived the terror attack at Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017. It was sitting in his living room listening to him that made me realise how low trolls had sunk.