ITV Coronation Street's Samia Longchambon shares 'nerves' around daughter using social media and effect trolling has had on her

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Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon has opened up about her own experiences of the online world as her on-screen character faces horror in upcoming scenes. Later this week, viewers will see Maria Windass one of her first big decisions as a local councillor go against her.

The ITV soap character will realise that her decision to change the local recycling collections has had unintended consequences for workers. She decided to bring in extra bins and new collections to make sure that recycling and environmental issues are a top priority for the local community.

However, the recycling collectors threaten to go on strike because of the extra workload, caused by her decision-making. Feeling awful and in a bid to put things right, Maria meets with a team leader from the refuse workers’ depot and offers to propose a pay rise, on account of the extra workload caused by the new recycling bins.

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Maria hopes it’s enough to get the binmen back on the job. However, Maria is door stepped about the strike and while she delivers an eloquent speech about recycling, Kelly Neelan later shows Maria a video online with her words chopped up and rearranged to a rap beat leaving her aghast at how her message has been manipulated.

But things only get worse when she becomes the target of a deep fake video. This is where one person's face has been convincingly replaced by a computer-generated face, which often resembles a second person. And Maria is left mortified when her son Liam gets into trouble for fighting at school, only to discover it's over a pornography video of her.

And as if things weren't bad enough for the character, Maria is then subject