Survivors of terrorism and tragedy are targetted with online abuse

What happens when tragedy makes you a target? The BBC’s disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring investigates why survivors of major terror attacks are hounded by conspiracy theorists who claim they are ‘crisis actors’.

As US broadcaster Alex Jones is ordered to pay nearly $1bn to families of the Sandy Hook school shooting, Marianna hunts the disaster trolls who target victims of tragedy in this investigative documentary.

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