From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
The BBC, Britain’s public broadcaster, announced the launch of a new “disinformation” unit in its newsroom to combat claimed conspiracy theories and fake news.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a statutory fee on individuals who watch live television under penalty of fine or imprisonment, stated that its news division will include a new squad branded “BBC Verify” to refute misinformation.
Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News, stated that BBC Verify will be composed of approximately 60 journalists “who will form a highly specialised operation with a range of forensic investigative skills and open source intelligence” and will be deployed to provide fact-checking, video verification, counter-disinformation, and “crucially – explaining complex stories in the pursuit of truth.”
Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation Correspondent, stated that “mistruths can cause really serious harm to society.” Spring, who will host the BBC podcast ‘Marianna in Conspiracyland,’ claimed she has set up some “undercover accounts” on social media to follow “polarisation online,” such as what is recommended to users.
According to the millennial journalist, she is currently studying “the UK’s conspiracy theory movement,” which she claims has “evolved and intensified” since the Chinese coronavirus outbreak. Spring identified “alternative media” as a source of so-called conspiracy theories.
“I’m looking at the way alternative media is funded, I’m looking at its impact on local communities, I’m looking at its connections with far-right figures and also its foreign links,” she said.
“Could January 6th or the German coup attempt we saw there ever happen in the UK?” Spring questioned.
The BBC, which has been restructuring to cut costs amid government threats to end the contentious licence fee from the public, may be attempting to demonstrate its value to politicians in Westminster, who have repeatedly expressed a desire to monitor the spread of ‘disinformation’ on the internet.
A separate study that same year indicated that only 44% of Britons trusted BBC journalists to be truthful in their reporting, compared to 48% who did not trust its news division to be accurate.
Evidently left wing media disinformation is OK with Marianna!
As for the idea that the Jan 6th protest was some sort of a coup is disinformation itself.
But if Marianna wants to get her teeth into some real disinformation, maybe she should start with this:
The irony is that Eric Blair “George Orwell” worked for the BBC.
Where do you think he got some of his ‘ideas’?
He based the Ministry of Truth on the BBC, I believe.
It is indeed telling that she’s only interested in right wing “disinformation “
The idea that there are a lot of conspiracy theories and fake news out there that are a threat to the truth- is the ultimate conspiracy theory!
Fake News!
“…will be composed of approximately 60 journalists “who will form a highly specialised operation with a range of forensic investigative skills and open source intelligence”…”
Why “journalists?” Just what forensic skills are taught at journalism schools and what is “open source intelligence” other than reading the other guys paper?
This is ironic, the press has a disinfo board. Before the word “disinformation” was bleached out and prepped for a new progressive fake hair color, we had the word “false”, and we had a First Amendment that protected the press from government boards of any kind telling the press what’s too false to print. It worked so well (Better than any other approach to speech and press) that progressives must destroy it. Progs are mostly incompetent, but they are good at destroying things that work. Now they move the “government disinfo board” in house, just like the USA (h/t Matt Taibi).
At the top of the list should be claims that the BBC is an unbiased news organization.
Next item would be to squash the myth that the PROTEST on January 6th was a “coup”.
So, they are officially spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories. Got it.
What’s interesting is to see how the Left has dumbed even England down to the point that they don’t remember who George Orwell is, nor do they appreciate the irony of the BBC installing a Truthspeak department.
They have always had a truthspeak approach to news. It’s the UK approach, as the government has always had the power and they use it to issue a D notice to media as it’s called which forbids them from publication of sensitive material.
Are these people completely deaf? If we don’t believe what you are telling us what on earth makes you think we will believe your so called fact checkers. You idiots!
We learn from our mistakes. That means that suppressing fake news will inhibit learning. That means that the BBC’s approach will push us towards a new dark age.
The answer is not to suppress fake news, but to openly and freely discuss it. ie, to argue the case. Daylight is the best disinfectant.
BBC Verify will be composed of approximately 60 journalists “who will form a highly specialised operation with a range of forensic investigative skills and open source intelligence”
As in the USA and canada they will be looking to defend the narrative against all information.
As for the idea that the Jan 6th protest was some sort of a coup is disinformation itself.
Too funny . The leader of one of the coup groups just got 16 years after conviction for sedition.
Rhodes, a Yale Law School-educated former Army paratrooper and disbarred attorney, was accused by prosecutors during an eight-week trial of fomenting a plot to use force to try to block Congress from certifying Democratic President Joe Biden’s election victory over Trump, a Republican. Rhodes was convicted on three counts and acquitted on two.
Almost by definition, any credentialed professional must master chronic lying; in medicine, in science, in political science.
Beginning with Bush vs. Gore where any MORON could see Gore minions trying to STEAL Florida, but even the news of the times can’t be found on the Internet (news showing each recount “finding” more votes for Gore).
It’s my basic test of understanding of the real world now: any person that doesn’t consider as a basic fact that Florida Dems are frauds is unworthy of attention. (That doesn’t mean that Reps can’t cheat either. It just shows how much Putin level obvious Dem fraud can be.)
Why is this message in small font, right at the foot of the front of the BBC’s website?
Rhetorically, of course.