BBC fights ‘fake news’ with fake Twitter accounts
The state-funded UK broadcaster operates several “sockpuppet” accounts representing different political views A journalist with the British broadcaster’s new fact-checking spinoff BBC Verify has admitted to deploying multiple fake Twitter accounts to combat “disinformation.” In a segment broadcast on Saturday, BBC “disinformation correspondent” Marianna Spring warned the audience that “mistruths can cause really serious harm […]
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