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We've caught BBC Scotland trying to hide a fake news blunder. The article was the top story on its online news page yesterday. It attacked the Scottish Govt. It's now disappeared. The fake claim also featured in Radio Scotland news bulletins.

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The story appeared yesterday just after 1pm. It claimed that Scottish GPs had not received coronavirus face masks despite having been promised them three weeks earlier by the Scottish Govt. As the image shows, it was the number one article on the BBC Scotland website.
The claim featured on Radio Scotland news bulletins and contained what appeared to be an attempt to smear Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman.

However, one day after the story appeared it had apparently disappeared. A Google search returned what appeared to be a link to the article. Clicking the link brought the user, not to the original story, but to a completely *different* article also published the same day. 🤔
Buried in the new article was an admission from Dr Andrew Buist that his original claim, on which the BBC Scotland article & bulletins were based, was untrue. Buist now accepted the Scottish Govt & Jeanne Freeman had indeed supplied the masks as promised.
As far as we can tell, BBC Scotland has made no effort to issue a correction for its erroneous news bulletins which attacked Jeanne Freeman. It appears to have tried to hide the mistake by removing the 'Fake News' article and making no further mention of Dr Buist's claim.
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