{"id":99080,"date":"2017-01-19T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=99080"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T10:00:46","slug":"the-bbcs-war-against-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/the-bbcs-war-against-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC\u2019s war against fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>The BBC has always been a more cautious news provider than many of its commercial rivals. This was highlighted during the recent Brussels Airport terrorist attack when television and online news channels rushed to social media and used materials not connected with the incident.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Instead of rushing for the scoop, the BBC prefers to verify the facts, preferably with their own team of reporters rather than rely on agency reports and user generated content.<\/p>\n<p>During the recent EU referendum, the BBC employed a system called \u201cReality Check\u201d to cut through the spin, fear and propaganda churned out by both sides and ensure, to the best of its capabilities, that its reporting was fair, balanced and accurate.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has now committed to the Reality Check fact checking service on a permanent basis and will be working with social media sites like Facebook to combat \u201cdeliberately misleading stories masquerading as news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressgazette.co.uk\/bbc-service-will-fact-check-deliberately-misleading-stories-masquerading-as-news-on-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Harding<\/a>, the BBC\u2019s director or news and current affairs, told journalists: \u201cThe BBC can\u2019t edit the internet, but we won\u2019t stand aside either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harding continued: \u201cWe will fact check the most popular outliers on Facebook, Instagram and other social media\u2026 where we see deliberately misleading stories masquerading as news, we\u2019ll publish a Reality Check that says so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want Reality Check to be more than a public service, we want it to be hugely popular.\u00a0We will aim to use styles and formats \u2013 online, on TV and on radio \u2013 that ensure the facts are more fascinating and grabby than the falsehoods. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an age where even politicians of countries where the press is a highly valued component of democracy, including the President-Elect of the United States, are accusing the media of reporting \u201cfake news\u201d, commercial news channels might do well by learning from the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking a news story isn\u2019t the be-all and end-all if the facts just don\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has always been a more cautious news provider than many of its commercial rivals. This was highlighted during the recent Brussels Airport terrorist attack when television and online news channels rushed to social media and used materials not connected with the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":99083,"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":[350,3729],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99080"}],"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=99080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99086,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99080\/revisions\/99086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}