BBC Broadcast. AFP=Yonhap News
The BBC broadcast interviewed and aired a person pretending to be a US senator and even apologized.
The BBC said on the 3rd (local time), “It seems that the person was deliberately trying to deceive them.”
On the 26th of last month, BBC Radio’s News Hour interviewed Senator Corey Booker (New Jersey) of the US Democratic Party. However, the person the BBC interviewed turned out to be a person who pretended to be him, not Congressman Booker. This was revealed when the listener heard the interview and reported that it was a fake.
“I heard BBC News Hour, and I don’t know how to send out the whole interview of a fake Booker,” the listener said on Twitter. “I was convinced I wasn’t a Booker after hearing the interview.”
Another listener also said on Twitter, “I was puzzled when the White House heard that it would not impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia even after it released a report that Prince Muhammad Binsalman of Saudi Arabia was directly involved in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Kashqji.”
In reporting the incident, the Guardian, a British daily newspaper, reported that there were occasional interviews with fake people. In fact, in December last year, Fox Business Broadcasting in the United States said it was interviewing a representative of a pork producer, but animal rights activist Matt Johnson appeared.
In 2017, the Washington Post interviewed a woman who claimed to have conceived her as a teenager by Roy Moore of the Democratic Party running for Senator Alabama, but it turned out to be a manipulator.
Reporter Jang Joo-young [email protected]
