Thomas Copeland
@thomascopeland.bsky.social
Journalist at BBC News / Formerly KFSK, Sky News, BBC Radio 5 Live
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@thomascopeland.bsky.social and I try to explain why the rollout of user location data by X matters and how it's changing the conversation on the platform after some high-engagement political accounts were criticised for misleading users.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKr3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKr3...
X's new location feature exposes misleading politics accounts | Global News Podcast
YouTube video by BBC News
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November 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
@thomascopeland.bsky.social and I try to explain why the rollout of user location data by X matters and how it's changing the conversation on the platform after some high-engagement political accounts were criticised for misleading users.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKr3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKr3...
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Good spot and follow-up by @thomascopeland.bsky.social for BBC Verify Live: Shein removes 'Luigi Mangione' image from its website www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
BBC Verify Live: Was fatal US strike on Venezuelan 'drug boat' legal?
Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Good spot and follow-up by @thomascopeland.bsky.social for BBC Verify Live: Shein removes 'Luigi Mangione' image from its website www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Me for the BBC World Service
US rural public media brace for 'life or death' cuts
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US rural public media brace for 'life or death' cuts
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Weekend - US rural public media brace for 'life or death' cuts - BBC Sounds
The House of Representatives has voted to revoke $1 billion from public broadcasting.
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June 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Me for the BBC World Service
US rural public media brace for 'life or death' cuts
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
US rural public media brace for 'life or death' cuts
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Photo by Olga Malchevska, verification work by @benedictgarman.com, @thomascopeland.bsky.social and @emmapengelly.bsky.social, also feeding into our live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...
Mannheim live updates: One person dead after car drives into crowd in German city of Mannheim, police say
A suspect has been arrested and a large operation is under way, police add.
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March 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Photo by Olga Malchevska, verification work by @benedictgarman.com, @thomascopeland.bsky.social and @emmapengelly.bsky.social, also feeding into our live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...
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What BBC Verify can do for the audience and the whole corporation.
Yesterday, @jcheetham.bsky.social, @thomascopeland.bsky.social and I advised news eds why we thought which flight the Tates were on. Then did the same on the News Channel. Later proven correct.
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Yesterday, @jcheetham.bsky.social, @thomascopeland.bsky.social and I advised news eds why we thought which flight the Tates were on. Then did the same on the News Channel. Later proven correct.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Richard Irvine-Brown on LinkedIn: Again, bolting together the work of Joshua Cheetham and Thomas C. with…
Again, bolting together the work of Joshua Cheetham and Thomas C. with mine to say what we could on the BBC News Channel while the Tate brothers were airborne…
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February 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What BBC Verify can do for the audience and the whole corporation.
Yesterday, @jcheetham.bsky.social, @thomascopeland.bsky.social and I advised news eds why we thought which flight the Tates were on. Then did the same on the News Channel. Later proven correct.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Yesterday, @jcheetham.bsky.social, @thomascopeland.bsky.social and I advised news eds why we thought which flight the Tates were on. Then did the same on the News Channel. Later proven correct.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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This was correct, at time of writing, around 3pm, London time.
Last reckoning was the plane was about 50km from Ft Lauderdale, expected landing time around 4pm.
Great working (literally) elbow-to-elbow with @thomascopeland.bsky.social today.
Last reckoning was the plane was about 50km from Ft Lauderdale, expected landing time around 4pm.
Great working (literally) elbow-to-elbow with @thomascopeland.bsky.social today.
February 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This was correct, at time of writing, around 3pm, London time.
Last reckoning was the plane was about 50km from Ft Lauderdale, expected landing time around 4pm.
Great working (literally) elbow-to-elbow with @thomascopeland.bsky.social today.
Last reckoning was the plane was about 50km from Ft Lauderdale, expected landing time around 4pm.
Great working (literally) elbow-to-elbow with @thomascopeland.bsky.social today.
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Lots of monitoring of FlightRadar24 and ADS-B Exchange going on right now from @jcheetham.bsky.social and @thomascopeland.bsky.social, who are standing up a lot of what we can say on the flight speculated to be used by the Tate Brothers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate leave Romania on jet bound for Florida, sources tell BBC - live updates
Prosecutors confirm the brothers' request to be able to leave Romania has been accepted, but they remain under investigation.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Lots of monitoring of FlightRadar24 and ADS-B Exchange going on right now from @jcheetham.bsky.social and @thomascopeland.bsky.social, who are standing up a lot of what we can say on the flight speculated to be used by the Tate Brothers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
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1/ THREAD
How do we know what we know about Gaza this morning, going from SnapChat.
Essentially, how did @thomascopeland.bsky.social and I work out where the banner was, and you can too? (Call it OSint if you must.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
How do we know what we know about Gaza this morning, going from SnapChat.
Essentially, how did @thomascopeland.bsky.social and I work out where the banner was, and you can too? (Call it OSint if you must.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Israel says eight hostages are dead, as hundreds of thousands of Gazans head north on foot
Israel says an updated list from Hamas
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January 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
1/ THREAD
How do we know what we know about Gaza this morning, going from SnapChat.
Essentially, how did @thomascopeland.bsky.social and I work out where the banner was, and you can too? (Call it OSint if you must.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
How do we know what we know about Gaza this morning, going from SnapChat.
Essentially, how did @thomascopeland.bsky.social and I work out where the banner was, and you can too? (Call it OSint if you must.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...