War on Truth Podcast
1) Marianna: one baby, three photos, and a web of lies
When Russia bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol, it claimed that a wounded pregnant woman was faking it. Her friends told us something different. Images of Marianna Vyshemirska fleeing the after...Show More
2) Moving to Marianna In Conspiracyland
This podcast series has moved, but you can now find all of my Radio 4 investigative podcasts in the Marianna In Conspiracyland feed.For all of my investigations, including Why Do You Hate Me?, Disaste...Show More
3) Introducing Marianna in Conspiracyland
What happened to the people who fell down the rabbit hole into a world of conspiracy theories? How far have they fallen – and how far will they go? In this 10-part series, the BBC’s Disinformation and...Show More
4) Roddy: 'We don’t trust the media – so we became it'
Citizen journalism – reporting by self-taught people, often on the ground – can play a vital role in the coverage of conflict. However, not everyone who contributes to this coverage is as 'independent...Show More
5) Tetyana: ‘My son is the Snake Island hero’
On the first day of the war, Ukraine gained a new patriotic hero and Tetyana thought she had lost a son. But the story wasn't quite as it first seemed. Tetyana’s son, Roman became world famous for de...Show More
6) Sergei: ‘It’s my duty to keep telling Russians the truth’
After Russia’s first independent radio station was taken off air by the Kremlin, the journalists who worked there are finding ways to get round censorship of the war in Ukraine. Sergei Buntman helped...Show More
7) Marianna Part 2: The view from the other side
Marianna Vishegirskaya is the pregnant woman who has unwittingly found herself at the centre of one of the most disputed events of the war. In a previous episode we looked at how Russia falsely accus...Show More
8) Rob: ‘Covid was a hoax, and so is the war’
What does the invasion of Ukraine have in common with the coronavirus pandemic? On the face of it not much at all, but disinformation about the war is also fuelling existing conspiracy movements arou...Show More
9) Masha: The influencer who is a secret weapon
Masha is one of the most famous faces on Ukrainian TV and a huge social media star. But the Russian-speaking celebrity has taken on a new role. Her Instagram posts about skin care tips have been repl...Show More
10) Maxim: Homeless and trolled
When social media star Maxim was shelled out of his home, he didn’t expect to be called a liar by some of his followers. But did the hostility come from real people - or automated accounts? As the ba...Show More