Rebecca Skippage
@rebeccaskippage
Disinformation Editor @BBCNews | 2020/1 Reuters fellow @risj_oxford
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news 07-02-2010 18:46:11
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The best way to deal with Covid myths this Christmas? Pre-bunk rather than debunk. Great practical advice from Sander van der Linden theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Excellent upsum on 2021’s anti-vaxx movement, climate change and the pivot between them. Proud to be colleagues of Shayan Sardarizadeh Kayleen Devlin and Suniti Singh bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-…
Excellent - as ever - from Marianna Spring
Brilliant series by Gabriel Gatehouse 👏🏻Highly recommended
Skilled + tenacious disinfo colleagues have been exhaustively verifying content to ensure what BBC News (UK) brings you is the truth. Here’s some that didn’t make the cut, courtesy Alistair Coleman Shayan Sardarizadeh bbc.co.uk/news/60513452
Is Russia using cluster bombs? An attack forensically analysed by BBC OSINT and disinfo experts Kayleen Devlin Josh Cheetham Jack Goodman Maria Korenyuk bbc.co.uk/news/60591017
WATCH sessions from last week's Trust in News #TIN22 conference featuring @Philippanews Claire Wardle Rebecca Skippage Sam Gregory @Laura_ellis @HannahStorm6 Mike Wendling Ross Burley @MartaShokalo Polina Ivanova Olga Robinson Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Hazel Baker bbc.co.uk/beyondfakenews… #TIN22
Question I’m most often asked: how do you know things are fake? Here’s how. And how you can know too. Fantastic work by Kayleen Devlin BBC Monitoring BBC Reality Check bbc.co.uk/news/61096713
Channels blocked, newspapers faked and pro-Russia TV for occupied towns. Compelling insights Maria Korenyuk Jack Goodman bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…
🚨WATCH 👀⬇️ TikTok takes up to 70% of in-app gifts donated to displaced Syrian children. Astonishing investigation from Global Disinfo Team + BBC News عربي Hannah Gelbart Mamdouh Akbik
Our investigation found children in camps in Syria are begging on TikTok Lives - while TikTok takes 70% of donations given to them. It’s taken months of work with BBC News عربي and BBC Eye to shed light on this… here’s how we found out 🧵 bbc.co.uk/news/world-632…
🇺🇸🗳How election deniers got, um, elected in the #Midterms2022 ⬇️ Great long view data crunching and analysis Kayleen Devlin Shayan Sardarizadeh Mike Wendling Jack Goodman bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
Such important work BBC Monitoring BBC NEWS فارسی and BBC Disinformation verify the identities of those killed in the #IranProtests - including a 7 year old girl BBC 100 Women
Fact-checkers need to learn from ‘disinformation merchants’ to grab more attention, Rebecca Skippage of BBC News (UK) tells MPs, while Will Moy of Full Fact warns about the creation of a market for 'low-quality, high-volume' fact-checking pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/fact…
What does generative AI mean for trust in news? Excited to discuss with Henry Ajder Join the #TIN23 livestream free! bbc.in/tin23 #TIN23
🚨We’ve uncovered a UK based news organisation experts say appears to be ‘information laundering’ for Russia. And it’s not quite as UK based as it seems… Great work by Hannah Gelbart and team ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bbc.co.uk/news/world-651…