BBC fooled by Bhopal hoaxer
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The BBC&#39;s international TV news channel has apologised after being duped into airing an interview with a fake Dow Chemical spokesman who said the firm would pay billions
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Bhopal - A hoax played on the BBC that US giant Dow Chemical was to pay $12bn to those maimed in the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster was slammed Friday as &quot;cruel&quot; in this city where thousands died.
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One of the speakers at a Toorcon security conference session last weekend has admitted that claims he and an accomplice made regarding an "unfixable" flaw in Firefox, and a video of the two purportedly exploiting this flaw, were a not-so-elaborate hoax.
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The BBCâs disclosure that it had played fast and loose with the name of a cat in a childrenâs television show is only the latest acknowledgment of deception by British broadcasters.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- In a media hoax coming on the 20th anniversary of the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster, Britain&#39;s BBC mistakenly reported Friday that Dow Chemical would take complete responsibility for the tragedy in which thousands of people died.
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The BBC&#39;s worldwide reputation for accuracy took a blow yesterday after it broadcast an interview with a hoaxer who claimed to offer a $12bn settlement to the 120,000 surviving victims of the Bhopal disaster.
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A television show in which a woman would donate a kidney to a contestants was revealed as a hoax Friday. Presenters said they were trying to pressure the government into reforming organ donation laws.
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Media & professional: Report of Glasgow attack says event staged by Britain to discredit Muslims.
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A Dutch TV competition in which patients vied to win a dying woman's kidneys is revealed as a hoax.
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A review is ordered into premium rate phone lines used by the BBC after errors are revealed.
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C4 forced to broadcast apology TV watchdog Ofcom has administered a stern telling-off to Channel Four for its handling of the Shilpa Shetty Celebrity Big Brother racism rumpus.â¦
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The BBC admitted Friday it was tricked into reporting that a US company accepted responsibility for the world&#39;s worst industrial accident.
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Beeb blanches at user generated filth The Web 2.0-tastic BBC just loves "user generated content". So when London's Olympic team unveiled its logo for the 2012 games to much mockery earlier today, what could be better than unleashing the Wisdom of the Crowd?â¦
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A much-criticised Dutch TV hoax featuring a "competition" for a kidney boosts the number of organ donors.
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The British Broadcasting Corp. apologized Friday for falling victim to a hoax in which a fake corporate spokesman claimed to take responsibility for a deadly cyanide gas leak at a Union Carbide subsidiary in India two decades ago.
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BBC World said on Friday it was duped in  an "elaborate deception" by a man who claimed to be a Dow  Chemical Co. spokesman and said the U.S. company accepted  responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster.
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British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was duped into making revealing comments about fellow ministers by an impressionist impersonating finance minister Gordon Brown, newspapers reported.