Twitter’s favourite conspiracy theorist came up with a corker last night – the sensational scoop that “hot on heels of Newsnight” the Government is now paying the Daily Mail for positive coverage. Except, as so often with correction Carole, that’s not really the case. The screenshot she posted on Twitter of a sponsored story in the Daily Mail was itself dated 21 May, long before the Dominic Cummings scandal. And what’s more, the sponsored stories have not only been appearing in the Daily Mail…

If Carole read Guido more often she would realise this bung to the corporate media through sponsored stories and government slogans adverts has been rumbling through the Coronavirus Crisis, including a whole host on the Guardian website itself. Oops…

UPDATE:

Government money in the Guardian is public health messaging, government money in the Mail is propaganda. https://t.co/FeMempSnm9

— Christian May (@ChristianJMay) May 28, 2020