BBC Verify has examined a 24 hour snapshot of Elon Musks timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts. The BBC's Analysis editor examines one day on the platform for the owner of X www.bbc.com/news/videos/... - ThreadSky

peterstefanovic.bsky.social • 44 days ago

BBC Verify has examined a 24 hour snapshot of Elon Musks timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts.

The BBC's Analysis editor examines one day on the platform for the owner of X
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c87dg3x1rd0o

Comments

phunkypunk.bsky.social•44 days ago

Isn't it time that MI6 sent one of their highly trained "Operatives" (that we obviously don't know about) to go and ever so quietly "Talk" to King Ketamine about his... life expectancy?

jimmbuzz.bsky.social•44 days ago

you mean one of the 00s ?
Musk is so high on ketamine that he probably thinks that they don't exist....

phunkypunk.bsky.social•44 days ago

You may say that, but I couldn't possibly comment because I know absolutely nothing.

About anything.

Ever.

jimmbuzz.bsky.social•44 days ago

Understood. a well briefed guy.

eagleneedle.bsky.social•43 days ago

Its all just entertainment for these billionaire felons. They know they have more than enough gullible followers.

chrisba60.bsky.social•43 days ago

How odd they wouldn’t highlight this in their main news shows

uroonconurse.bsky.social•43 days ago

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”

Or in this case lies!

pennyflynn.bsky.social•44 days ago

This never reaches most BBC viewers. Most people don’t know who Atkins is.

litefoot.bsky.social•44 days ago

Exactly. It's too late - the nonsense Musk has been pushing has already become too well established thanks to the BBC pumping it out over the last week or so.

bigchris6.bsky.social•44 days ago

Excellent work Ros. Truth first, last and always. Please take notice little Mark Zuckerberg. Where's your Jimminy Cricket?

raymc.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ramblings of a shotgun approach. Throwing spaghetti at the wall, something sometimes sticks.

revenge-of-ken-oh.bsky.social•44 days ago

Be nice if they also applied that to their own propaganda

johndonovanuk.bsky.social•43 days ago

Right Wing politics has always been built on lies.

ynwa1888.bsky.social•44 days ago

📌

dawnbritten.bsky.social•44 days ago

Excellent.

linda2111.bsky.social•44 days ago

cheshiredoglady.bsky.social•44 days ago

Rosemary Atkins is the boss.

acrobat-one.bsky.social•43 days ago

Now add all the other European countries where Elmo is conducting similar campaigns, including Germany, France and Norway. Aggregate them into the same timeline and conduct fact checking for the aggregate on a daily basis. Give you the bigger picture view of the megalomaniacs campaign.

gardenbirdnerd.bsky.social•44 days ago

If only there were more journalists like Ros Atkins

tombiggs.bsky.social•44 days ago

We need more Ros Atkins!

tombiggs.bsky.social•44 days ago

Brilliant report from Ros Atkins

ledredman.bsky.social•43 days ago

Ros Atkins has almost single handedly saved the BBC's reputation. His reports are almost the only real journalism coming out of BBC News.

ssk85760565.bsky.social•43 days ago

BBC Verify is itself a spreader of misinformation.

ms-kuk.bsky.social•43 days ago

In what sense?

ssk85760565.bsky.social•43 days ago

The “fact checking” arm created by an organisation that has proven its own bias - there are numerous analyses showing the BBC’s biased reframing of facts and omissions of important events in Gaza to favour Israel - and this latest makes the entire org untrustworthy: https://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3lezcdv6pic2e

ssk85760565.bsky.social•43 days ago

And if the opinions of Owen Jones or MintPress or Jonathan Cook or The Canary aren’t enough, maybe google what the late John Pilger had to say about the BBC’s fact checker.

ms-kuk.bsky.social•42 days ago

I take the opinions of Owen Jones with a pinch of salt, but I understand your point. Just reading @emilymaitlis.bsky.social book at the moment, she has things to say.

ssk85760565.bsky.social•42 days ago

I agree - Jones has been wrong on a few issues in the past (I, like so many, got blocked by him on X for calling him out on those), Emily Maitlis is not someone I’d trust in anything.

muzzac.bsky.social•42 days ago

Trusting Maitlis over Jones is not a sign of good judgement.

martinindubai.bsky.social•44 days ago

We need more of this.

kevinwardrop.bsky.social•44 days ago

I'm a Comedy Genius, from just this morning:

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinwardrop.bsky.social/post/3lffj5b7dwc2a

lostfifer.bsky.social•43 days ago

Time to leave X

rach58.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thank you Ros Atkins
I had to leave X due to it being so toxic
Maybe it should be banned in UK?

plod1.bsky.social•43 days ago

You need to send that to American press outlets

plod1.bsky.social•43 days ago

Then the bbc need to headline
Today’s lies in musk land rather than amplify those lies without verifying them.

seamusthegoat.bsky.social•43 days ago

The BBC is in no position to talk about misinformation. It should shine a light and apply the same analysis to its own record and share the results.

middlerage.bsky.social•44 days ago

The “red-pill” wave

marg67.bsky.social•43 days ago

Excellent
Ros Atkins one of the few with any credibility at the BBC

leeincapetown.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

redrob1.bsky.social•44 days ago

This is well worth a listen . I have deleted my X app after ten years on the platform. Musk is now feral . His wealth is similar to the annual gdp of Portugal . and places him in a position to peddle crap .

waddy71.bsky.social•44 days ago

Fact checking? Zuckerberg won't like this.

el-vim-fuego.bsky.social•43 days ago

And yet they still employ Chris Masson

craigsmaw.bsky.social•43 days ago

fredolives.bsky.social•44 days ago

hobbitswife.bsky.social•43 days ago

Can BBC Verify look at their amplification of the interests a small insignificant party over the Lib Dems and other established party’s with many more MPs? Definite bias. (I’m not a Lib Dem voter!)

scarletspider85.bsky.social•43 days ago

I recently suggested to the Mrs that Green Party MPs would make great commandos because they seem to be completely invisible - when did you last see them on camera?

hobbitswife.bsky.social•43 days ago

Nope or on the radio news either. I follow some of the Greens now just to hear what they are saying. Far too much Fromage & Tory rubbish not enough hearing other views.

momsapplepie.bsky.social•43 days ago

Tokyo Rose had nothing on Lonnie.

weatherman52.bsky.social•43 days ago

Wow! Are we supposed to sit back and take this barrage of misinformation and lies? I hope our national security agencies are forensically examining his every word and action.
One thing is clear..his vast wealth is no indicator of his low levels of intelligence or mental stability

dsmithwales.bsky.social•44 days ago

About time

gahanzwart.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ehm misinformation or disinformation? Misinformation is mistake, disinformation is deliberately inaccurate.

oscarwoofs.bsky.social•43 days ago

Has BBC Verify examined the reporting by Chris Mason?

Does he eulogise as much about all politicians?

ms-kuk.bsky.social•43 days ago

Great question. I would like to see this as well

toekneee.bsky.social•44 days ago

The BBC will no doubt be getting rid of its fact checkers next too 🤪

jimmbuzz.bsky.social•44 days ago

Next question is why does the government continue to use that platform?
And why do they continue to allow this guy to poison the minds of people in the UK?

muttonbird.bsky.social•43 days ago

No surprise there

girlybojon.bsky.social•25 days ago

Not at all surprising. . .

kendonagasaky.bsky.social•44 days ago

And when did the bbc start being concerned with fake news? Glad they see this worthy of investigation would hate to think they would ever investigate incidents in Gaza like the bastions of truth they claim to be.

chickenlady.bsky.social•44 days ago

Great, so what's up with this?
Is the Brazilian judge going to remain the only one on this planet, to hold Edolf accountable...?

immidereinzige.bsky.social•43 days ago

2) The EU Commission @ec.europa.eu has been given a powerful tool by Council of Member States and EU Parliament in form of Digital Service Act (DSA).
It can impose fines on platform owners of up to 6% of the group's global turnover.
In Musk's case, that's not just a few million, but many billions.

immidereinzige.bsky.social•43 days ago

3) This must be done in an absolutely legally secure way, because the owners can take legal action against it at the European Court of Justice.

The EU Commission began monitoring and investigating X last year.

immidereinzige.bsky.social•43 days ago

4) Since almost all of Commission's leadership positions had to be filled after the EU elections (much more difficult than forming a government), it will be a while before measures are taken.
But I think that the recent interference and attacks against heads of states will speed up the proceedings.

immidereinzige.bsky.social•43 days ago

In the case of the conversation between X operator Musk and AfD party leader Weidel, the Presidium of the German Parliament is investigating illegal party donations.
This could be very expensive for the AfD.

immidereinzige.bsky.social•43 days ago

It should also be mentioned that until recently BlueSky had not even met the minimum EU requirements to appoint an official representative and contact person and a company address to one of the Member States.

chickenlady.bsky.social•43 days ago

Yes, it would be fantastic.
Germans don't even realise how much they're going to miss this government , if they don't vote it back. It's the same as in the USA.

chickenlady.bsky.social•43 days ago

Yes.
I worked in Brussels while it was created .
But good for audiences to know.

tobifrenzen.bsky.social•43 days ago

Shut him and his grotesque site down!

He has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that he cannot handle the responsibility that comes with being in charge of a site like Twitter, let alone a global news app - which he claims to be the “world’s biggest”.

greyarea22.bsky.social•43 days ago

💯

sofiainlondon09.bsky.social•43 days ago

Good people should just leave that sewer, and it'd be enough. But I'm not sure enough people get it yet. Just yesterday I was telling a friend, who's very much anti everything Musk has been amplifying, to stop using X, and he couldn't be bothered. "It won't make any difference".

tobifrenzen.bsky.social•43 days ago

If the site was Russia-owned, it would have been banned immediately. Why is this any different?

cdtplug.bsky.social•43 days ago

Isn't it partly Russian owned? Musk used some Russian money to buy twitter, he got the money from the sons of two sanctioned Russian oligarchs and dodged the sanctions.

tobifrenzen.bsky.social•43 days ago

Good point. All the more reason to sanction it.

davidjwbailey.bsky.social•43 days ago

Mostly loans from Saudi, although there are definitely Russian investors – the investor list was leaked months ago

cdtplug.bsky.social•43 days ago

So you could say, he's a bit of a Muskovite.

phenotype.dev•43 days ago

Sanctioned Russian investors, IIRC

adybee.bsky.social•43 days ago

The BBC should be ignoring him. That’s the best way to deal with rage farmers. Did they learn nothing from their obsessions with people like Johnson and Farage ❓It NEVER ends well. #Musk #Johnson #Farage #RageFarmers

jonahharrow.bsky.social•43 days ago

I agree. But the BBC is still in the midst of its obsession with Farage so no, it hasn't learned anything.

They are EAGER to broadcast Farage and Musk's every utterance and unforgiveably any fact-checking is done AFTER publication, not beforehand.

adybee.bsky.social•37 days ago

🎯

turntable100.bsky.social•43 days ago

Starmer is terrified of Musk

turntable100.bsky.social•43 days ago

This is what authoritarian looks like

nothardcheese.bsky.social•25 days ago

Wouldn't it be great if BBC News waited for BBC Verify to do its thing before they report what Musk says on Twitter as actual news?

andydownie.bsky.social•44 days ago

I guess now the BBC won’t give him a voice?

I’ll wait…

welshswede.bsky.social•44 days ago

He’ll go somewhere else, like Emily Maitlis did.

mrpmurphy.bsky.social•44 days ago

Not surprised. About time we put the same responsibilities on social media platforms as other publications.

jimmbuzz.bsky.social•44 days ago

Problem is that the various governments have allowed Murdock to get away with murder by caving in on Leveson.

pistachiosnapper.bsky.social•43 days ago

#RejoinEU

calenhad-social.bsky.social•43 days ago

It's not misinformation ffs.

It's disinformation. In other words: deliberate lies.

anthonyjacobs.bsky.social•43 days ago

It's disturbing how much misinformation, dangerous and threatening rhetoric, and far right apologism he can cram into just 24 hours. #Elon clearly has a problem, and I worry about this becoming a problem for more than just the UK.

scotsandlit.bsky.social•44 days ago

Someone should do this everyday to save humanity

damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social•44 days ago

#BlueThicks

jakatta75.bsky.social•43 days ago

The BBC knows all about amplifying misinformation

ian1045.bsky.social•43 days ago

Musk is no hero! He’s a self serving liar!

tjj11.bsky.social•43 days ago

Amazing, the BBC do the right thing for a change. Obviously not a Zionist in charge in this case.

rotortorture.bsky.social•43 days ago

Who knew that Ketamine Karen is a cunt?

djbeard.bsky.social•44 days ago

📌

owlcatjewelry.bsky.social•43 days ago

📌

pauls998.bsky.social•43 days ago

And no doubt they’ll soon backtrack and decide they were wrong following a meeting of executives……..?

naomimorris.mainbastards.online•44 days ago

I could have told them that! 😂

chrisbraith85.bsky.social•44 days ago

Imagine a bbc with Sunday with Ross Atkins instead of kuenssberg

petewanderings.bsky.social•42 days ago

Ross Atkins and Victoria Derbyshire would bring political credibility to the BBC. On ‘Sunday with LK’ and she is increasingly showing bias. Questions to Labour are tinged with scepticism but, with Tories, she’s with fellow travellers - watch her different face and body language too!!

petewanderings.bsky.social•42 days ago

Today, on the piece on the economy she said (in passing??) that Rachel Reeves was ‘AWOL’ on a trip to China! (worlds 2nd largest economy) as if she was sitting on a beach in the Caribbean … it’s not good enough

mushtaq44.bsky.social•42 days ago

Imagine a BBC that assigns journalists with actual expertise in their areas to conduct prime time interviews. The economy, science, technology - the detail of these things actually matter and should not be left to political hacks where everything boils down to how things might play to the voters.

mushtaq44.bsky.social•42 days ago

Time to try treating the viewer with some intelligence, and/or inspire/encourage people to do more to educate themselves if they find things going over their heads.

againstlies.bsky.social•42 days ago

Factual BBC instead of RW propaganda?

What to choose?

canlug.bsky.social•42 days ago

laserfox.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ros Atkins is a legend. And a decent drum n bass DJ

geoffcampbell.bsky.social•44 days ago

Let's support the BBC to keep doing this. Facts matter.

andyjolley.bsky.social•44 days ago

One important aspect that isn’t covered is the sheer volume and lack of breaks in musk’s tweeting

He is only getting 3-4 hours sleep

That’s not healthy or sustainable

waddy71.bsky.social•44 days ago

I'm not sure he's doing it all.

monsieur-fox.bsky.social•44 days ago

Just like the Russian FSB Bot propaganda

andyjolley.bsky.social•44 days ago

It’s a relief to know musk isn’t taking money from Russians or had close contacts with their leadership

Oh…. Hang on

https://fortune.com/2024/10/25/elon-musk-putin/

andyjolley.bsky.social•44 days ago

I’d be surprised if he ceded control to anyone else

waddy71.bsky.social•44 days ago

Could be right.