Why Do You Hate Me?

2. I believed conspiracies about the shooting I survived

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Episode notes

Marianna Spring talks to a survivor of the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 about how posts on a social media account made him question an event he’d witnessed with his own eyes

Listen to more episodes of Why Do You Hate Me on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. For this series, Marianna Spring (one of the most trolled BBC journalists) dives into her inbox and investigates a different extraordinary case of online hate to find out. She meets the people at the heart of these conflicts, and in some cases brings them together, to see if understanding - even forgiveness - is ever possible. Subscribe to BBC Sounds to hear the episodes first.

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If you have been affected by online abuse, please visit bbc.co.uk/actionline

Host: Marianna Spring Series Producer: Emma Close Producer: Ben Carter
Editor: Sam Bonham
 Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell Production co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge

Cellphone footage courtesy of Lindsay Sherk