Immigrants are eating household pets has spawned that one by the musician the kiffness. False it may well be but the claim has dominated news cycles, and onejournalist set out to find the source of the now debunked rumour. Jack brewster is enterprise editor at newsguard and he s been telling us about how he did it. Yeah, so finding the source of this claim is almost as interesting as the claim itself. We went to the screenshot that everyone was sharing online, purporting to come from the person who originally shared the claim, and it was posted first in this private facebook group. And when it was shared on x which is where it went viral somebody had redacted the name at the top, so you couldn t tell who was the original poster of this claim. But my colleague and i noticed that a couple of the letters were exposed at the top and so, we zoomed in and after about a few minutes of searching, we guessed that the name might be erica, just by the way that the tops of the letters were e
This is bbc news. Well have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. Hello, im Katie Razzall and this week on the Media Show, were talking about Donald Trumps false claims that migrants are Eating Pets in ohio. Were learning about life as a reporter in china with the Economists Man in beijing. And well go inside the race for al and the Tech Bro rivalries at the heart of it. Synthesiser Music Backup vocals and funky beat plays thats one of many remixes that Donald Trumps false claim that haitian immigrants are eating Household Pets has spawned that one by the musician the kiffness. False it may well be, but the claim has dominated news cycles, and onejournalist set out to find the source of the now Debunked Rumour. Jack brewster is Enterprise Editor at newsguard, and hes been telling us about how he did it. Yeah, so finding the source of this claim is almost as interesting as the claim itself. We went to the screenshot that everyone was shari
Backup vocals and funky beat plays that s one of many remixes that donald trump s false claim that haitian immigrants are eating household pets has spawned that one by the musician the kiffness. False it may well be but the claim has dominated news cycles, and onejournalist set out to find the source of the now debunked rumour. Jack brewster is enterprise editor at newsguard and he s been telling us about how he did it. Yeah, so finding the source of this claim is almost as interesting as the claim itself. We went to the screenshot that everyone was sharing online, purporting to come from the person who originally shared the claim, and it was posted first in this private facebook group. And when it was shared on x which is where it went viral somebody had redacted the name at the top, so you couldn t tell who was the original poster of this claim. But my colleague and i noticed that a couple of the letters were exposed at the top and so, we zoomed in and after about a few minutes
Lets get over to china correspondent in beijing for more. What are the latest developments . The economic front, we did hear from the finance minister over the weekend. There will be additional measures from china to cut taxes and fees to support the economy. We saw additional meters over bond issues at the local government level. Additional letters from policymakers to support the economy. Meet its social and economic target. The question is how much budgetary pressure china will be under and how aggressive these stimulus measures are going to be. Pboc has lowered Interest Rates ensure Financial Markets in terms of cases, 68,500 are the latest numbers in terms of infection. 1600 deaths. The rate of infections continues to slow. We had a doctor out of one of the hospital say that now according to state media, this is starting potentially to peak the rate of infection. The new officials on hubei profits, wuhan is the capital, population they are told not to leave their homes. Leadership
Could turn to content teaching the next generation of mental to touch on. Music channels available to people to catch up and most are turning to doing something here for the next generation. The environment series of global 3000. A star is born chinas answer to u. S. Tech stocks index nasdaq is off to a stellar start but surging stock prices creating several new billionaires but analysts warn that the star market yet come barreling down to earth. Also coming up norways says it wants its Sovereign Wealth Fund to become green but environmentalists say thats Just Lip Service either way the funds investments have become a heated topic of debate. And robots and alcohol makes we take you to an unusual bar in prague to find out. This is a business im danell them a lot and in berlin thanks for joining us its the latest that in chinas ongoing bid for tech superpower status the newly created Tech Exchange called star market had a debut of astronomical games with some share prices shooting up by