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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Amanda Meade

Fake X accounts fool Sky News Australia – twice

Rita Panahi of Sky News Australia
‘This pair of farmers, shown in the ad, appear to in fact be two actors,’ Rita Panahi wrongly told Sky News Australia viewers. Photograph: Sky News

It hasn’t been a good week for Sky News Australia, which has had to admit reporting information based on fake X accounts. Not once but twice.

It started with Sky After Dark’s Rita Panahi telling viewers that two farmers who appeared in a Kamala Harris campaign commercial were actors and longtime Democratic party donors.

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