Fair play to our old ‘friends’ Ibrox News, who regular readers to the Noise will know we’re not the biggest fans of, but they did snare a fake Rangers story all on their own even if our audience will have noted we didn’t cover the Pierce Charles story at all.
The one thing we noticed was News didn’t retract their original story about the Wednesday goalkeeper being of interest to Rangers, and simply added their follow up as well.
The short version is it’s completely fake Rangers story, contrived by a tiny AI-based Twitter account called Ed Johnson – in fairness, it didn’t take Clouseau to figure that.
But then the s*n and other red tops don’t employ Clouseau, and they ran it, but more tellingly, the BBC did too!
Not only did the BBC run the story, they fully credited the bold Johnson with the story, advertising it on their own website as legit – we would be embarrassed for them, but it’s the BBC who have done much worse than this in their past. Lost any credibility a long, long time ago.
And the upshot of this is all these media groups have run the fake Rangers story, BBC aside.
No, we are not interested in Charles, and yes, the story is completely fake behind a dodgy X/Twitter account.
Fair play for News for highlighting it, brownie points for that. Points deducted for leaving the original story up for the traffic content.
We’re not going to post the fake account’s content in here, but during transfer season, trust next-to-nothing.
But some really are more obvious than others…