Kevin Beaumont
BBC News managed to run a headline news story based on a single source tweet from a paid blue tick crypto scammer account 🤦‍♀️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c393xmpzjwko
World's oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, still alive despite reports of death

A widely circulated social media post purporting to belong to the tortoise's vet has been revealed to be a hoax.

BBC News
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Show threadArazil16h ago
@GossiTheDog
Show thread/home/matth16h ago
@GossiTheDog BBC "News" has not been fit for purpose for quite some time now.
Show threadSimon Flett16h ago
@GossiTheDog BBC reports of Sir Lindsay "Ponderous" Hoyle, Speaker of the UK House of Commons, being quicker on his feet than Jonathan the Tortoise have also been found to have been false.
#RejoinEU
Show threadSimon newslttrs.com16h ago
@GossiTheDog BBC Verify was having a day off, presumably.
Show threadJulien Avérous – 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦15h ago
@GossiTheDog Are they even aware that they are supposed to be the last bastion for trustworthy source of information ? :/
Show thread[email protected]:~$ 15h ago
@GossiTheDog is this one of those “no such thing as bad press” situations for the BBC? sigh…
Show threadFemme Malheureuse12h ago
@GossiTheDog Damn it. I think I boosted that damned thing, too. How are we supposed to vet this crap when news outlets like BBC can't be arsed to do so?
Show threadJesse10h ago
@GossiTheDog reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated