attacks with banners proclaiming 'ISIS will lose' yesterday afternoon. But a video which emerged of the group apparently being positioned by TV reporters led to claims online that the channel was 'creating a narrative'. The video has since been shared more than 14,000 times on the social network and liked more than 16,000 times.
CNN has denied online claims that it 'set up' a counter-extremism demonstration behind one of its reporters.
A
group from the London Fatwa Council came to the police cordon near the
London Bridge terror attacks with banners proclaiming 'ISIS will lose'
yesterday afternoon.
But a video which
emerged of the group apparently being positioned by TV reporters led to
claims online that the channel was 'creating a narrative'.
CNN has
denied claims it positioned anti-extremism demonstrators behind its
cameras to 'create a narrative', insisting the group arrived to be seen
by TV cameras
Reporter Becky Anderson mentioned the protesters signs in her news report on the terror attack.
She
said: 'On the left here, Londoners came to help hurt, behind me you can
see a sign here, hashtag 'turn to love', hashtag 'for London', hashtag
'ISIS will lose', and flowers left in remembrance of those who left
their lives.'
The man who filmed the footage, a Twitter user called @markantro, tweeted: 'CNN creating the narrative #FakeNews'
His video was shared more than 14,000 times on the social network and liked more than 16,000 times
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