PBC News: The BBC has issued an apology and started an investigation after airing an interview with a man who posed as Sen Cory Booker of New Jersey.The network said in a statement that the unidentified man was interviewed on the “Newshour” radio programme Friday, adding that the appearance appeared to have been a “deliberate hoax.”
The statement said that the BBC had apologised to Booker and that the company was looking into “what went wrong” to ensure it does not happen again.
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The interview aired once, live at 3 pm Eastern and mostly in the United States and a few other places around the world, a spokesman for the BBC said Thursday. A second edition of “Newshour,” which airs at 4 pm, was also broadcast in the United States and around the world, but without the interview, he said.
Booker’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
