THE QUEEN

OF ENGLAND:
QUEEN
ELIZABETH II
DIED AT THE AGE OF 90
THIS IS A FAKE NEWS !
The Queen is dead was the fake news tweeted by
BBC News (UK).

While the BBC’s U.K. news feed is named “BBC

News (UK),” its handle is @BBCNews, not
@BBCNewsUKI. The superfluous extra “I” at the
end, which a reader in a hurry might mistake for
a parenthesis, is a giveaway that the account is
not real.

This tweet was made on 29th December 2016.

Which got 236 Retweets and 59 likes.

Because of this tweet there was a trendy

hashtage #mediablackout
REALITY ?
THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND - QUEEN ELIZABETH II

! IS ALIVE AND IN HEALTH !

THE MONARCH CONFIRMED THAT QUEEN IS ALIVE
AND IS IN GOOD HEALTH FOR HER AGE AND HAS
RARELY NEED OF MEDICAL TREATMENT.

TRUTH BEHIND THE FAKE NEWS ?

The man behind the account tweets mostly about
football and everyday life. He has since told Trending
that he was merely repeating a rumour that his wife
first saw in a Facebook post.

"As (we) were in Oz, a lot of Brits over here thought it

was true," he explained in a message to Trending.

29 Dec, Morning: A slow trickle of tweets picks up on

the rumour, both online and off.
"I was told through some friends. They said they
heard it on the radio," the man who posted that
particular tweet has now told Trending. "As they
couldn't tell me what station it was said on, I
went to Twitter and came to the realisation it
was a hoax."
29 Dec, Shortly after midday: A fake account
made to look like the BBC's official UK News
Twitter feed falsely tweets that the Queen has
died. Despite being a rather crude imitation of
the official BBC account, the tweet manages to
fool a few people to retweet it, before a wave of
debunking messages flow forth.…and yet the
hashtag continues to pick up steam.
Not everyone is aware of the debunkers, and
many are mistakenly under the impression that
news of a royal death could only be announced
at 08:00, and that was the reason for the delay.
Some on social media await the morning in a
state of agitation
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NAME - SUPRAJA. VENKATESHAM. GUJJETI

ROLL - BD/20/2071
SEM - 3
DEPT - TD