Good piece over at Spiked by Laurie Wastell who is taking well deserved aim at the BBC’s ‘disinformation and social media correspondent’ Marianna Spring. Ms Wastell has written at length about Ms Spring and the BBC’s relentless criticism of Twitter under the management of Elon Musk.

What, according to Ms Wastell, the BBC seem to want is for Twitter and other social media outlets to be more not less censorious, to restrict more not less voices.

Here’s an excerpt from Ms Wastell’s piece.

Essentially, the BBC’s position is that Big Tech companies like Twitter are not strict enough in their regulation of speech. One might have thought that the BBC’s duty to be impartial would prevent it from broadcasting its biases so clearly. Tellingly, last month, in a hearing on online harms and disinformation, Marianna Spring told MPs that she never feels hindered in her reporting by the BBC’s impartiality rules. This, she says, is because ‘it is not about giving equal weight to views where one is false and one is true’. It seems that as long as Spring feels she has truth on her side, she feels she has no duty to air alternative perspectives.

Not even it seems if the alternative perspective might be correct or at least not wholly wrong. This is not proper impartiality of the sort that we should expect from the BBC. Ms Spring seems to believe that all of those on ‘her’ side are telling the truth and everyone else are liars, which is not an attitude that is conducive to the idea of a broadcaster or other media outlet being properly impartial.

You can read the entirety of Ms Wastell’s excellent piece via the link below.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/28/laurie-marianna-spring/