- Sputnik International
World
Get the latest news from around the world, live coverage, off-beat stories, features and analysis.

UK Envoy Pays Tribute to Porn Star Sasha Grey, Confusing Her With a Math Student

© AP Photo / Matt SaylesSasha Grey arrives at the premiere of "127 Hours" in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010
Sasha Grey arrives at the premiere of 127 Hours in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - Sputnik International
Subscribe
A prankster presented a porn actress as a medal-winning Bosnian student, and a British diplomat was quick to spread the news; the gaffe highlights the importance of fact-checking in the era of social media.

British Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Matt Field was recently duped by pranksters; a "Bosnian student" whom he praised online turned out to be one of the world's best-known former porn actresses.

Matt Field unknowingly reposted a humorous tweet that gave a shotout to Saša Garanović, a fictitious student of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo who had allegedly won third place at a math competition in Chicago, lamenting that she had not enjoyed enough media attention.

The caption was accompanied by a photo of Sasha Grey, a retired American porn star who is now pursuing a career in modeling and music.

"Well done, Saša," Field tweeted, according to the Bosnian news portal Source.

After realising what a blunder he made, the diplomat, who took office last August following a number of overseas political and policy roles, deleted his erroneous tribute and turned it into a joke.

"Now I know how many follow me on Twitter. And that's something," he said, adding, tongue-in-cheek, that he'd managed to "go down in history."

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала