The BBC is teaching kids how to spot propaganda in UK schools. Will they start with themselves? [TWEETS]
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The BBC will teach kids how to spot propaganda in schools across the UK. High-profile BBC journalists will enter classrooms in up to 1,000 secondary schools and sixth forms and train children in identifying ‘fake news’. But many have asked whether they will start with themselves.
Major inaccuracies
On the same day the BBC announced the initiative, the outlet was caught broadcasting major inaccuracies. BBC News at Ten broadcast footage of two Indian actors, while reporting on the death of Bollywood star Shashi Kapoor. Neither of them were actually the deceased actor.
BBC star Adil Ray of the show Citizen Khan said:
Someone at the BBC thought the brown person in this VT is the same person. Worse still neither of them are the deceased actor [anchor] Huw [Edwards] refers to. It’s poor when it would have taken them seconds to verify. Not enough care.
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