{"id":93009,"date":"2016-10-11T09:03:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T09:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=93009"},"modified":"2016-10-11T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T09:03:13","slug":"the-indy-and-huff-post-fall-foul-of-fake-far-right-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/the-indy-and-huff-post-fall-foul-of-fake-far-right-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indy and Huff Post fall foul of fake far right tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Independent and Huffington Post both fell foul and <u><a href=\"http:\/\/order-order.com\/2016\/10\/06\/international-support-theresa-may\/\">reported<\/a><\/u>\u00a0on spoof tweet which they believed had been posted by the French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tweet heaped praise on Theresa May\u2019s recent speech at The Conservative Party\u2019s annual conference in Birmingham where she said: \u201cIf you\u00a0believe\u00a0you\u2019re a\u00a0citizen of the world,\u00a0you\u2019re a\u00a0citizen of nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Had both the publications not been in such a hurry to go to press (digitally) they might have had time to check their sources and spot the Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElyseeMarine\">@ElyseeMarine<\/a> is clearly labelled as \u201cCompte Non Officiel\u201d \u2013 a phrase which even my school boy French is good enough to translate.<\/p>\n<p>Had they bothered to check for just a couple more seconds, the fake account also provides a direct link to Le Pen\u2019s official (Twitter verified) account where there was no mention of the British Prime Minister\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>While both stories have since been taken offline, The Press Gazette was able to <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressgazette.co.uk\/independent-and-huffington-post-fall-for-parody-le-pen-tweet-praising-theresa-may-speech\/\">capture<\/a><\/u>\u00a0both title\u2019s glee at discovering the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent wrote: \u201cOne of the most controversial comments of\u00a0Theresa May\u2019s Conservative conference speech\u00a0has received a ringing endorsement from French far right leader,\u00a0Marine Le Pen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Huffington Post said: \u201cOne of the most controversial comments of\u00a0Theresa May\u2019s Conservative conference speech\u00a0has received a ringing endorsement from French far right leader,\u00a0Marine Le Pen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps supporting the old adage \u201cDon\u2019t let the facts get in the way of a good story\u201d, BuzzFeed\u2019s political journalist Marie Le Conte was quick to capture screen shots from both titles and tweet: \u201cThis week in \u2018who cares if the tweet came from a parody account, all traffic is good traffic\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if The Independent or Huffington Post would have been so quick to publish this story if it was going to print instead of just the web?<\/p>\n<p>Just because we expect our news to come thick and fast it doesn\u2019t mean journalists can ride fast and loose with checking their facts first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent and Huffington Post both fell foul and reported on spoof tweet which they believed had been posted by the French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":93010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3729],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}