Best correction you’ll see all year
Call off the search, we’ve found the correction of the year, after a reporter for Kremlin-backed TV channel Russia Today was forced into a rapid reverse ferret after tweeting this.
And this.
Now you might think the RT reporter, who appears to be a woman called Sameera Khan, tweeted them as some sort of joke (albeit a not very good and poor taste one). But no, it appears she really did believe it.
Because then this happened.
Now the original tweets have been deleted, as has the apology and indeed Sameera Khan’s entire Twitter account. Almost as if history has been rewritten.
Fortunately some people were around to capture it for posterity.
You can't make this up.
Just checked @SameeraKhan's timeline to see if the Russia Today Washington Corro was still denying the existence of re-education camps in Xinjiang.
It appears she's deactivated her account after receiving blowback about posting ~pro-Stalin Gulag memes~! pic.twitter.com/sovesfWY0m
— Fergus Ryan (@fryan) October 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/BMARSHio/status/1049394510185328645
https://twitter.com/MarinaHyde/status/1049363234824880128
https://twitter.com/HKFrese/status/1049356992970670080
"Russia Today" journalist @SameeraKhan suffers unfairly harsh criticism for pointing out criminal justice reforms of Joseph Stalin.
Joseph Stalin is revered in Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. pic.twitter.com/ccoTQbl2xk
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) October 8, 2018
For violating our editorial policy that Stalin is 'unfairly demonized', Russia Today "Journalist" @sameerakhan has been deleted. pic.twitter.com/GNl1sHc9DH
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) October 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/KatieMHRoberts/status/1048770836658671616
Imagine discovering in 2018 that Stalin’s gulags were bad.
— Peter (@Fareed79_) October 8, 2018
And just in case you were wondering where they came from.
The latest memes coming out of the Moscow disinformation farm. Just look at Joe Stalin’s happy smiling face! He LOVED his political prisoners pic.twitter.com/IQnKDw1quG
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) October 8, 2018