Fake News
By well-wisher
Thu, 21 Dec 2017
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Did you see the news today?
Apparently some hacker made a pirate television broadcast in the middle of BBC 24 hour news that used sophisticated CGI graphics and audio editing to report a fake Chinese Nuclear missile launch against all of the Nato countries.
It was so well made apparently that no one seeing it was able to tell it was fake and several viewers, believing that their town was going to be hit by Chinese nuclear weapons tragically committed suicide.
They compared it to the famous 1938 Orson Welles broadcast of "War Of The Worlds" when listeners to his radio drama thought the world really was being invaded by Martians and several experts were brought on to talk about wether, in the age of computer generated fakery, we can believe anythng we see on TV.
Then they had a phone in on the Victoria Derbyshire program where various people called in to say they had seen the broadcast.
Some said they'd gone on line to find out more and, not able to find out anything about the chinese missiles online, had worked out that it must be fake and others had worked it out after phoning their relatives on their mobiles and discovering that their relatives had different news on their TV sets but others said they had been preparing themselves for Armageddon, even making makeshift bunkers in their cellars and garages.
Now theres a big police manhunt to find who made the fake broadcast and they say, because of the suicides, they might be charged with manslaughter and people are visiting the homes of the people who killed themselves to leave flowers and messages of sympathy.
The only problem is, now that I've seen all this on TV, I'm not even sure that its really real.
Maybe its fake news too.
Apparently some hacker made a pirate television broadcast in the middle of BBC 24 hour news that used sophisticated CGI graphics and audio editing to report a fake Chinese Nuclear missile launch against all of the Nato countries.
It was so well made apparently that no one seeing it was able to tell it was fake and several viewers, believing that their town was going to be hit by Chinese nuclear weapons tragically committed suicide.
They compared it to the famous 1938 Orson Welles broadcast of "War Of The Worlds" when listeners to his radio drama thought the world really was being invaded by Martians and several experts were brought on to talk about wether, in the age of computer generated fakery, we can believe anythng we see on TV.
Then they had a phone in on the Victoria Derbyshire program where various people called in to say they had seen the broadcast.
Some said they'd gone on line to find out more and, not able to find out anything about the chinese missiles online, had worked out that it must be fake and others had worked it out after phoning their relatives on their mobiles and discovering that their relatives had different news on their TV sets but others said they had been preparing themselves for Armageddon, even making makeshift bunkers in their cellars and garages.
Now theres a big police manhunt to find who made the fake broadcast and they say, because of the suicides, they might be charged with manslaughter and people are visiting the homes of the people who killed themselves to leave flowers and messages of sympathy.
The only problem is, now that I've seen all this on TV, I'm not even sure that its really real.
Maybe its fake news too.
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