The BBC reports that Biased BBC has another ally in the war against misinformation and media manipulation:
So many faked images are circulating in Egypt that Facebook sites have been set up with the goal of separating fact from fiction, writes BBC Monitoring’s Dina Aboughazala.
The sheer volume of disinformation has led to the creation of verification pages on Facebook, such as Da Begad? – or Is This Real? – which tries to verify posts, images and videos, regardless of their origin. Despite the confusion, social media remains an important source of information in Egypt, with authorities and ordinary citizens alike using it as their main channel of communication. Facebook is said to have 13 million users in the country.
Shame the BBC doesn’t do the same for its reports from Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
Maybe they should get Jeremy Bowen to look into this.
After all, he’s the expert at passing off pre prepared propaganda stunts as ‘news’
Maybe the al-beeb realizes they got burnt by reporting MB’s casualties number without questioning the source?
I know; rhetorical question.
Last year I complained that the photograph the BBC was using in articles about Rachel Corrie was a photoshopped fake .
This was their reply:
Dear Mr Guy
Thank you for getting in touch.
The image was supplied by Getty photo agency and is originally from the ISM. Our picture desk has examined the image in high resolution and is not convinced it is fake. If we discover the picture was doctored we will obviously take action but until such a time there are no grounds to remove it from the story.
Kind regards
Middle East desk, BBC News website
The BBC standard for photographs would now appear to be not that their experts are convinced that the picture is authentic but that they are not convinced it is inauthentic, Talk about lowering the bar.
Facts are of no relevance to the BBC when it comes to villifying Israel.
Well pursued and proven deegee. The BBC deem such photos innocent until proven guilty regardless of their source and obvious appearence.
Standard BBc. About 6 or 7 years ago I attend a demonstration which the BBc reported on it’s web page. Several details in the report were factually incorrect. When I complained I was told this is what our reporter saw. So that told me then!
After I originally commented I appear to have clicked on the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox
and now whenever a comment is added I get four emails with the exact same
comment. Is there a way you can remove me from that service?
Kudos!