Belgian TV shocks country with fake news
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The Belgian public television station  RTBF shocked viewers late on Wednesday with a dramatic -- but  fake -- news report that the Dutch-speaking half of the nation  had declared independence.
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In a fictional broadcast by Belgian public television, Flanders had proclaimed its independence.
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As calls for the break-up of Belgium along its linguistic divide grow ever louder, up to 1,000 people took to the streets of Brussels on the anniversary of the country's independence to march in favor of unity.  One pro-unity demonstrator said: "In Belgium, for the moment, we are in crisis. It's a pseudo-political crisis organized by lunatics. No more, no less. It's about power and will bring nothing but misery. Hands off Belgium!"
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It was trial by television as half the population of the Netherlands tuned in to watch a bizarre twist in Natalee Holloway's case
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Live television footage of a young woman having her nipple pierced on the German version of reality TV show Big Brother has outraged politicians and child protection agencies.
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The Dutch prime minister said a  reality television show about a &quot;dying&quot; woman donating her  kidneys, which turned out to be a hoax, was not the most  suitable way of highlighting the need for more organ donors.
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A controversial fake documentary gets its world premiere in Toronto
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Fake news is more popular, and more trusted, than ever.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on a German attempt to criminalise Holocaust-denial across Europe.
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Channel bids to win back trust from viewers following the spate of recent 'TV fakery' scandals.
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A Belgian newscaster apologized on Tuesday for suggesting French President Nicolas Sarkozy was drunk in footage shot at the G8 summit that ranks among the top video clips on the YouTube website.
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Every time a straight-news journalist alters a fact -- even something as picayune as the color of a bomb blast -- it convinces people that the media must lie about big things as well
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Comment is free: Nick Davies:  An industry whose task should be to filter out falsehood has become a conduit for propaganda and second hand news
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PARIS -- A secret US program to monitor millions of international financial transactions for terrorist links violated Belgian and European law and will have to be changed, the Belgian government said yesterday.
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Two Belgian journalists - one Flemish and one Walloon - look at Belgium's political crisis from contrasting standpoints.
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A reality TV show promising a donated kidney as a prize turns out to be a hoax, but ruffles plenty of feathers.
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'Hadn't only drunk water', insinuates Belgian TV French TV declined to show a clip of French big cheese Nicolas Sarkozy looking a bit worse for wear at the G8 conference, but that didn't stop the Belgians broadcasting a press conference which, inevitably, has found its way onto YouTube:â¦