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Wow. The BBC is racist as fuck. On your left, the school shooter in Sweden. On your right, how the BBC reported it. They even found someone wearing a hoodie, because don't forget: white people are supposed to be scared of black and brown people in hoodies 🤬

#BBCBias #UKMedia #Racism
The school shooter in Sweden. A young WHITE man with short brown hair and a fringe. He's staring glassy-eyed straight into the camera.
A screenshot from the BBC report on the school shooting in Sweden shows a young Asian man in a black hoodie with the hood up, underneath a black puffer jacket. The grey and red checked lining of the jacket is exposed. Caption reads: Sweden searches for answers after country's deadliest shooting
#racism #bbcbias #ukmedia
Anna
what the actual hell.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
I have to admit it's pretty extreme, even for the BBC. Not their first time though. Not by a long stretch.
I'm just glad I don't pay for that shit.
Rage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🔞
Seems like some news flunky was told to fire up the AI for "menacing male figure". AI reflecting all the biases of its input produced that.
hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼
No, it's somebody who told the BBC that he fears there was a racial element to the shooting. His image is at the top of the article.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crm71dmkjjyo

@fkamiah17

Sweden searches for answers after country's deadliest shooting

Police say the motive of the shooter, who killed 10 people on Tuesday, remains unknown.
Nick Beake (BBC News)
@MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Yes, but it's still extremely misleading to have the brown guy's image directly below the massive headline. They should have formatted it the other way around.
hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼
It's all automatic these days, it's easier to say sorry than pay someone to set up the page in a way that /all/ parsers render it in a non-biased way and possibity of a misinterpretation is reduced to a minimum.

Edit: Ah wait I see what you mean. Yes, they should've used a different top image for sure!

@Black_Flag
@Rage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🔞
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MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Surely there's still a human that clicks "publish" though? Whatever the excuse - which they won't even bother offering - it's not good enough.
hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼
The author specified a proper thumbnail though, see the thumbnail that showed above where I linked that article. That image is specfied in the various tags and other data in the HTML source - which has set by the author who published it.

The grabber at Google News however, seems to go for the first data-component="image-block" in the article.

Interestingly, Google News now shows the right one, but Google Images the wrong one. (Google Search is a mess these days.)

@Black_Flag
@Rage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🔞
hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼
I want to add that I'm just intrueged by this happening and I am in no way saying the BBC is /not/ racist. Both things can be true.

@Black_Flag
@Rage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🔞
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Sure. Literally no one who scans the BBC headlines (as almost everyone does) is going to bother checking in that much detail, and the latent impression will already be made.
hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼
Yeh, I understand additional damage done to the BBC reputation by Google News is hard to undo.

@Black_Flag
@Rage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🔞
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
The BBC really hasn't got much of a reputation left to damage these days. It's just compounding the issues that are causing its decline.
hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼
This seems a poor thumbnail grab by Google News (which I assume is what you are screenshotting there)

This is the actual article, you can see what actually happened here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crm71dmkjjyo

(Edit: But sure, it definitely could be intentional, as someone reviewing it let it through.)

Sweden searches for answers after country's deadliest shooting

Police say the motive of the shooter, who killed 10 people on Tuesday, remains unknown.
Nick Beake (BBC News)
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Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦
Just imagine if they were reporting it the same way they're reporting the Gaza war or the ongoing coup d'etat in the US "Critics say that mass shootings in schools are a bad thing, but others disagree"
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
If they thought they could get away with it, they probably would.
Jarno
yeah everybody always praises the BBC as if it's the second coming but it's just ConservativeTV.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
It's been a lot worse these last 10 years or so, since it got captured by Brexit monkeys. I stopped watching/listening to it (and paying for it) years ago.
Jarno
only good thing coming from it is dr. who and even that is up for debate since the sellout to disney-
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Hmmm, well that's a personal taste issue 😬 😁
John_Loader
your opinion.
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