Rebecca Skippage (@rebeccaskippage) 's Twitter Profile
Rebecca Skippage

@rebeccaskippage

Disinformation Editor @BBCNews | 2020/1 Reuters fellow @risj_oxford

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Rebecca Skippage (@rebeccaskippage) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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/…

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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-…

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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

Rebecca Skippage (@rebeccaskippage) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thanks Rory! The work of the BBC’s disinfo, UGC and OSINT teams has been absolutely outstanding. A privilege to explain how we work #Ukraine

Olga Robinson (@o_rob1nson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: Tania survived a strike on a school in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, but was accused by pro-Kremlin accounts of being a fake. Here’s her story bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…

Hannah Gelbart (@hannah_gelbart) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Rebecca Skippage (@rebeccaskippage) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🇺🇸🗳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-…

Press Gazette (@pressgazette) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Grigor Atanesian (@atanessi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Working with Logically, BBC's Global Disinformation Team tracked down the Belgian man behind a new pro-Russian network targeting French-speaking Africa. He told me he wanted Africa to embrace Russia, but insisted he had no ties to Wagner's Prigozhin... bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

Rebecca Skippage (@rebeccaskippage) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨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…