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Source: Twitter @kanciller/ Star Wars
Whenever we watch the news, read something online, or even hear something from a friend, chances are we trust the sources we’re hearing.
Unfortunately, even credible news stations aren’t always as trustworthy as we’d like to think. Millions of unsuspecting homes were accidentally showed some rather humorous information earlier this week on a popular Spanish news program, La mañana.
Their error? Oh, you know, they just used the Rebel Alliance logo from Star Wars thinking that it was the symbol of ISIS.
Start the slideshow below to see the embarrassing mixup as well as the hilarious reactions people had to it, then SHARE it!
Episode I: The Phantom Morning Show
Source: TVE/ Twitter @ElHuffPost
TVE, the national, state-owned public television broadcaster in Spain, controls all of the country’s public television and radio emissions through its many programs.
Earlier this week, however, some sloppy research led a popular morning show, La mañana, to broadcast the Rebel Alliance logo from Star Wars with some Arabic writing below it in lieu of the actual symbol for al-Qaeda in a segment about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Both terrorist groups have been making headlines all week for last Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris, as well as for threats made against other cities across the world.
Episode II: Attack of the Clowns
TVE ha puesto el símbolo de la Alianza Rebelde de Star Wars para referirse a ISIS pic.twitter.com/UpP9LrD2D7
— jezucrihto xd (@yisucrist) November 16, 2015
Naturally, Spanish viewers who were keen enough to notice the error immediately took to social media to lampoon the error. Whether they were dedicated Star Wars fans or just knowledgable about current events, a fair amount of people realized the mistake that the morning show made. They were inspired to make memes like the one above, which shows Luke Skywalker chanting “Allahu Akbar,” an Islamic phrase meaning “God is the Greatest,” commonly heard in the Muslim call to prayer.
Episode III: Revenge of ISIS
IMAGENES EXCLUSIVAS DE TVE SOBRE EL ISIS PLANEANDO EL PRÓXIMO ATENTADO: pic.twitter.com/5HN7KbWdyn
— Estrella Jalisia (@EstrellaJalisia) November 16, 2015
This hilarious tweet shows a picture of Darth Vader with some Middle Eastern women with the caption “Exclusive images from TVE of ISIS planning its next attack.”
Episode IV: A New Flop
Esta mañana he confundido un logo durante una explicación en el programa. Culpa mía. Lo siento si ha podido ofender a alguien.
— Jota Abril (@JotaAbril) November 16, 2015
Jota Abril, host of La mañana, later took to Twitter to apologize for the mixup. He wrote “This morning I confused a logo during an explanation on the show. My fault. I’m sorry if I’ve offended anybody.”
Episode V: The Internet Strikes Back
But it gets worse because the logo TVE used for Al Qaeda is a “record label” on Facebook called “Alqaeda’Inc”. pic.twitter.com/e51Smwzo17
— Matthew Bennett (@matthewbennett) November 16, 2015
What’s perhaps most embarrassing about the mistaken logo was the source of the image.
Whichever intern or producer at TVE put together the slide seen on La mañana seems to have found the image through a poor Google or Facebook search. The symbol they mistook to represent the terrorist organization al-Qaeda was actually from a Facebook page for a “record label” called Alqaeda’Inc, which uses the Rebel symbol on its profile.
Probably should have fact checked that!
Episode VI: Replay of the Jedi
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