By Marianna Spring
BBC Disinformation and Social Media correspondent
Conspiracy theorists, who claim UK terror attacks have been staged, are tracking down survivors to their homes and workplaces to see if they are lying about their injuries, a BBC investigation has found.
Martin Hibbert, who was paralysed from the waist down when he and his daughter Eve were caught in the blast of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, told the BBC he is now preparing to bring libel action against a man who says he spied on Eve from a vehicle parked outside her home.
Richard D Hall, a conspiracy theorist based in Wales, has described how he physically tracks down survivors of the attack - in which 22 people were killed and more than 100 injured - to determine whether it was faked. In a video shared with his followers online, he demonstrates setting up a camera to film Eve, now profoundly disabled and in a wheelchair, to see whether she can in fact walk.
"I'm all for freedom of speech," Martin Hibbert told me. "But it crosses the line when you're saying I'm an actor or I've not got a spinal cord injury or Eve's not disabled, she's not in a wheelchair.
"You don't know how far he's going to go to get answers."
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