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The Jewish Chronicle reports on what appears to be a disastrous blunder made by someone who was trying to remain anonymous on the internet.

The now-private “Not that bothered” @BotheredThat Twitter account had a history of posting anti-Israel posts and retweeting messages from individuals who have been accused of anti-semitism.

In addition, the account has previously described the BBC’s Director General as a “White male Tory”, and had a pop at BBC 5 Live presenter Emma Barnett after a speech she gave about the Holocaust’s impact on her family.

Of course, whoever runs the @BotheredThat Twitter account doesn’t want their identity to be known.

Which makes it somewhat unfortunate that The Jewish Chronicle claims to have been sent screenshots which appear to reveal the account’s true owner…

Hello – We hope all is well with your family. Are we ok to use your image for BBC World TV?
Regards nimesh.thaker@bbc.co.uk

I’m no expert, but to me that looks awfully like a journalist sent a tweet to someone whose picture they wanted to use in a news report, but didn’t realise they were logged into the wrong Twitter account.

Nimesh Thaker, if you’re curious, is a broadcast journalist at BBC World… although I’m not sure how long that will remain the case, as the BBC is said to be investigating the matter.

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