Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Car tracking

Plenty of "Verify" references in last night's 6pm and 10pm bulletins on BBC1, perhaps provoked by Guido Fawkes' assertion that the Verify Unit, sixty-strong, had failed to produce any output over the Bank Holiday weekend. 

What really happened between Monday and Tuesday was that the BBC decided that video footage widely shared on social media the previous night COULD be used with some blurring, given that no-one had died, and all injured were making progress. There were hundreds of eye-witnesses, and the checking of the car against building shapes was mere 'direction', not verification.  Expect more shoe-horning of coverage into a flawed concept as the week goes on. 

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