{"id":575294,"date":"2021-06-28T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575294"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:05:09","slug":"fact-check-did-bbc-news-publish-a-story-about-tom-hanks-being-arrested-for-child-pornography-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-bbc-news-publish-a-story-about-tom-hanks-being-arrested-for-child-pornography-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did BBC News Publish A Story About Tom Hanks Being Arrested For Child Pornography Possession?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-bbc-news-publish-a-story-about-tom-hanks-being-arrested-for-child-pornography-possession%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575294&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hanks-scaled-e1624654796165.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=202059985162245&#038;set=a.105059258195652&#038;type=3\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows BBC News published an article titled \u201cTom Hanks arrested on 135 counts of child porn possession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of BBC News publishing or deleting the story.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=202059985162245&#038;set=a.105059258195652&#038;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> shows what looks like a screen grab of the BBC News website in which a headline featured prominently on the page reads, \u201cTom Hanks arrested on 135 counts of child porn possession.\u201d The supposed story is paired with a picture of actor Tom Hanks and wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tom-hanks-and-wife-rita-wilson-test-positive-for-coronavirus-in-australia-11583979189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rita Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged article about Hanks being arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/search?q=Tom+Hanks+arrested&#038;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cannot be found<\/a> on the BBC News website. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-57524423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-57524164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">articles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210618191306\/https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-57525252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visible<\/a> in the screen grab below the purported Hanks story were published June 18, presumably meaning it would also have been posted that day. However, no such article about Hanks appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210618010005\/https:\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210618191701\/https:\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">versions<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210618125435\/https:\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News website<\/a> from June 18.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, in the screen grab being shared on Facebook, three bullet points related to the COVID-19 pandemic can be seen below the supposed Hanks article. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210618150222\/https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/newshttp:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210618150222\/https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One archived version of the BBC News website<\/a> from June 18 shows the same bullets beneath a story that put up the headline \u201cLIVE One Covid vaccine dose cuts hospital risk by 75%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can confirm that BBC News did not post this story,\u201d a BBC News spokesperson said in an email to Check Your Fact. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/18\/fact-check-tom-hanks-die-covid-19\/\">(RELATED: Did Tom Hanks Die From COVID-19?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Hanks been arrested for possession of child pornography, it likely would have been widely covered in the media, yet there are no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Hanks+arrested+for+child+porn&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&#038;ei=Bj7WYNvjOM67tQaw-IjICQ&#038;oq=Hanks+arrested+for+child+porn&#038;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6BQgAELADOgcIABCwAxAeOgkIABCwAxAIEB46BQgAEJECOgUILhCRAjoECC4QQzoLCC4QsQMQxwEQowI6CAgAELEDEIMBOgUIABCxAzoICC4QkQIQkwI6BwguELEDEEM6BAgAEEM6BQguELEDOggILhDHARCvAToCCAA6DgguELEDEMcBEK8BEJMCOgIILjoFCC4QkwI6CAgAEBYQChAeOgcILhANEJMCOgYIABAWEB5KBAhBGAFQicIdWJrnHWDC6B1oBHAAeACAAZsBiAHSG5IBBDIuMjiYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6sAEAyAEKwAEB&#038;sclient=gws-wiz&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjb_tSf0bPxAhXOXc0KHTA8ApkQ4dUDCA4&#038;uact=5\">credible news reports<\/a> about such a development, from BBC News or any other outlet. In July 2020, Check Your Fact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/07\/26\/fact-check-tom-hanks-arrested-pedophilia-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a viral rumor that Hanks had been arrested in Australia for pedophilia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows BBC News published an article titled \u201cTom Hanks arrested on 135 counts of child porn possession.\u201dVerdict: False There is no record of BBC &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281505,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hanks-scaled-e1624654796165.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did BBC News Publish A Story About Tom Hanks Being Arrested For Child Pornography Possession?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hanks-scaled-e1624654796165.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did BBC News Publish A Story About Tom Hanks Being Arrested For Child Pornography Possession?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}