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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
This morning, the Washington Post reviewed the first day of the Republican National convention and looked ahead at day 2. We heard from the post writers. Lets get started with white garrin, ander anne dan it is a tuesday morning. Welcome to both of you. Thank you. Led to be here. Dan, to get your take on what we saw on night 1, was there any one particular thing that stood out to you . I would say there were a couple of things that stood out. This was not quite the optimistic Convention Many organizers had been advertising. There were speakers who tried to do that, but for the most part this was a night if attacks on Vice President biden and kamala harris. What struck me was that last week the democrats went after President Trump on basically character and temperament. Last night i thought the republican attacks were basically focused on ideology and policy of the democrats. The republicans were portrayed last week as subservient to President Trump, that the president is bound by no pa
Our opinion writer for the Washington Post. Welcome to first look, Washington Post live stop shop for news and analysis, all about this week, the Republican National convention. Lets get started with White House Reporter ann geron. In chief Political Correspondent dan. It is a tuesday morning. Welcome, both of you. Thank you. Glad to be here. Jonathan dan, to get your take on what we saw on night 1, was there any one particular thing that stood out to you . Dan i would say there were a couple of things that stood out. This was not quite the optimistic Convention Many organizers had been advertising. There were speakers who tried to do that, but for the most part this was a night if attacks on of attacks on Vice President biden and kamala harris. What struck me was that last week the democrats went after President Trump on basically character and temperament. Last night i thought the republican attacks were basically focused on ideology and policy of the democrats. The republicans were