Out-of-date Telegraph article reignites McCann scandal rumours

ByCraig Haley

A 2010 article from the website of UK paper The Telegraph reporting on the allegation that the McCann parents were involved with the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine has bizarrely begun spreading online, leading many to believe it is a current story.

In 2010, Kate and Gerry McCann were accused by a Portuguese detective of being involving in the disappearance of their daughter. However since then the case was dropped and widely discredited by authorities, and a libel case against the detective followed which the McCann’s won in April 2015.

However an article from The Telegraph written in 2010 and reporting on the case has – for some reason – begun spreading online, being passed between social media users who have clearly failed to check the date of the article.


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This has led to the rumour that the McCann’s have once again been suspected of being involved in their child’s disappearance.

The Telegraph have since put a disclaimer at the top of their article reminding people that it is a out-of-date article and provides a link to their current webpages involving Madeleine’s disappearance.

It serves as a reminder to social media users to check the date of news articles that they read online to ensure that they are still current.

In early 2015, a 2009 article by the Guardian reporting on TV personality Tony Hart’s death began spreading on Twitter, leading many to believe he had just passed away when he actually died 6 year prior.

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