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World's oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, still alive despite reports of death (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A widely circulated social media post purporting to belong to the tortoise's vet has been revealed to be a hoax.

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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Correction 2 April: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Jonathan had died, after the BBC along with other media outlets fell for a fake social media account. It has been updated to explain the circumstances.

Lol imagine fooling the BBC

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They don't have source checkers anymore.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

They do. It's called the public. They outsourced.