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https://twitter.com/jkk4782/status/1497301157278097410

Social media users are sharing screenshots of fabricated CNN and BBC News tweets saying a CNN journalist named Bernie Gores has been captured and executed by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The text in a tweet from an account called CNN Afghanistan with the handle @CNNAfghan reads: “#BREAKING: #CNN Journalist ‘Bernie Gores’ executed in #Kabul by #Taliban soldiers. We are working with US officials to get several more journalists out of #Afganistan (sic) at this time. Our thoughts are with Bernies’ family.”

There are also posts showing a tweet with similar text and a photograph of the same man from a Twitter account called BBC Afghanistan with the handle @BBCAfghanNews , as seen here .

Neither account, however, showed as being verified in these Twitter screenshots and have both have since been suspended (here).

A reverse Google Images search of the man in the photographs shows YouTuber Jordie Jordan (twitter.com/worgodicp?lang=en) (here).

Matt Dornic, head of strategic communications at CNN, told Reuters via email: “This is a fabricated story and a fake post.”