Thread by @CoppetainPU

This is common but lazy use of quotation marks by headline writers. They assume it covers all meanings from a genuine quote to a claim or accusation. Unfortunately that's not how it reads. Should be 'Govt claims PM's accusers are "politically motivated".'

https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1177951650012643328

Another example of lazy headline writing. The quotation marks are supposed to distance the headline from the claim, but written this way it doesn't work. It reads like an endorsement

https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1178438925133717507?s=19

Episode 3 of “the @BBCNews website needs to look much more closely at its headline writing”.

Here👇🏽 the headline is actually wrong.

Here's what she said: “I am not the woman referred to in Charlotte Edwardes’s column” Totally different.

@BBCPolitics

bbc.com/news/uk-politi…

@BBCNews @BBCPolitics In case you don't see the headline that I see, this is it:

bbc.com/news/uk-politi…