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Fake news? Meet the fake journalists

How news outlets inadvertently published propaganda from a network of fake journalists.

The Daily Beast has published an investigation into a network of fake journalists that placed opinion pieces in dozens of real news outlets. All the articles were sympathetic to the foreign policy objectives of the United Arab Emirates and the "journalists" who wrote them were backed up by fictitious online personas. Amol Rajan is joined by Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, and Marianna Spring, Â鶹ÊÓƵAV reporter covering disinformation and social media.

Also in the programme, restarting TV production in a global pandemic, with Danielle Lux, CPL managing director, David Mortimer, STV Productions managing director, and Emeka Onono, director and executive producer of Trump in Tweets.

Sound engineer: Tim Heffer
Producer: Richard Hooper

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28 minutes

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Wed 8 Jul 2020 21:30

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  • Wed 8 Jul 2020 16:30
  • Wed 8 Jul 2020 21:30

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