BBC trolled on social media after Stone Buoy image goof

The BBC shared a story with the image of a wrong person

Failure to rectify an elementary error in time has landed the BBC in trouble among some Ghanaians, with huge a social media trolls.

The Giant media house had shared link to a story about Ghanaian artist stone Buoy, but with the image of different person.

The BBC's Focus Africa session interview of the award-winning artiste on the release of his third studio project called 'Epistles of Mama' took place this week, and a link to the audio was shared on its official Twitter , where the error was detected.

This angered Ghanaians and asked BBC to take down the post or correct the errors with the gravamen being the inability of the global broadcaster to rectify the error,even after 24 hours.

They began by politely asking them for change the image and after 24 hours, the photo wasn't taken down so they got aggressive and attacked the media hours.

The BBC has since remove the link to story from its twitter page.

">https://twitter.com/DavidMawuli/status/941256758844108800" data-iframe-title="Twitter Tweet" data-dt-full="%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}" data-dt-explicit-timestamp="10:41 AM - Dec 14, 2017" data-dt-months="Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec" data-dt-am="AM" data-dt-pm="PM" data-dt-now="now" data-dt-s="s" data-dt-m="m" data-dt-h="h" data-dt-second="second" data-dt-seconds="seconds" data-dt-minute="minute" data-dt-minutes="minutes" data-dt-hour="hour" data-dt-hours="hours" data-dt-abbr="%{number}%{symbol}" data-dt-short="%{day} %{month}" data-dt-long="%{day} %{month} %{year}" data-scribe="page:tweet" data-twitter-event-id="10">

— (@DavidMawuli) ">

">https://twitter.com/DavidMawuli/status/941256758844108800" data-tweet-id="941256758844108800" data-scribe="section:subject">
— (@DavidMawuli) ">

David Mawuli@DavidMawuli

Look @BBCAfrica, I know the error is from your image source (Getty Images) but can't you rectify this after these plenty complaints? Or your social media manager can't see this?

https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/941016893800009728 …

">https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/941016893800009728" href="https://t.co/YqRxdCZ8Ho" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-expanded-url="https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/941016893800009728" data-scribe="element:url">https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/941016893800009728 …

— (@BBCAfrica) https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/941016893800009728 …

10:41 AM - Dec 14, 2017

">https://twitter.com/DavidMawuli/status/941256758844108800" data-datetime="2017-12-14T10:41:13+0000" data-scribe="element:full_timestamp">10:41 AM - Dec 14, 2017

— (@DavidMawuli) 10:41 AM - Dec 14, 2017

">https://twitter.com/xerda/status/941083137643286530" data-iframe-title="Twitter Tweet" data-dt-full="%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}" data-dt-explicit-timestamp="11:11 PM - Dec 13, 2017" data-dt-months="Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec" data-dt-am="AM" data-dt-pm="PM" data-dt-now="now" data-dt-s="s" data-dt-m="m" data-dt-h="h" data-dt-second="second" data-dt-seconds="seconds" data-dt-minute="minute" data-dt-minutes="minutes" data-dt-hour="hour" data-dt-hours="hours" data-dt-abbr="%{number}%{symbol}" data-dt-short="%{day} %{month}" data-dt-long="%{day} %{month} %{year}" data-scribe="page:tweet" data-twitter-event-id="13">

— (@xerda) ">

">https://twitter.com/xerda/status/941083137643286530" data-tweet-id="941083137643286530" data-scribe="section:subject">
— (@xerda) ">

Published

BBC trolled on social media after Stone Buoy image goof

Comments

Please leave your comment below