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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Inside the BBC's Verification Hub
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Inside the BBC's Verification Hub
http://j.mp/LeUpfq (Neiman Reports / Harvard)
"The soldiers-a number dressed, incongruously, in sneakers-appear to
reply with gloating taunts. But they are mainly concentrating on the
job at hand: covering the victim's head in earth. They do their grisly
job well; in less than a minute his head is completely buried. The
video then ends abruptly-the rest is silence. One rain-swept morning
in April, Trushar Barot, assistant editor at the BBC's User-Generated
Content (UGC) Hub in London's rather bleakly monolithic BBC Television
Centre, was studying the anonymously posted footage on YouTube. His
Twitter feed was buzzing with news of the clip. Jon Williams, the
BBC's world news editor, had also raised it at the 9 o'clock news
meeting. What everyone wanted to know, on Twitter and in the newsroom,
was this: Was the video real or fake? That is the kind of question the
Hub is there to investigate."
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