BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty has expressed her shock and confusion over misleading articles about her posted by alleged scammers.
The 49-year-old journalist revealed that she's accustomed to "misleading articles about myself online, but the screenshots I’ve been sent by friends and followers on social media in recent weeks are a lot more insidious than most".In an article for BBC News, she explained that she had discovered paid advertisements on X and Facebook featuring explicit fake images of her.
After investigating with the BBC 5 Live team, they found that these adverts led to a counterfeit BBC News website designed to "trick people out of their hard-earned money".Munchetty wrote: "I was both mortified and bemused, curious about who would pay good money to spread such obvious nonsense.
And what was their motive? Is it something malicious? Someone with an axe to grind?"I discussed it with my 5 Live production team, and we began to dig into it more.
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