Fake news! Piers Morgan and Dan Walker in the Twitter battle of the breakfast shows
The Good Morning Britain host had fun when BBC Breakfast messed up its captioning - but when it came to the crunch it was Walker who had the statistics to back him up
It began with an innocent morning tweet from BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker...
https://twitter.com/mrdanwalker/status/834282792720674817
But then his Good Morning Britain counterpart Piers Morgan stepped in to do some trademark stirring...
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/834282957833633793
That led to claims of fake news...
https://twitter.com/mrdanwalker/status/834287166645817345
...and a dig at Breakfast's captioning, which to be fair was a pretty glaring error...
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/834283675655274496
But finally – in a move that would make a New York Times journalist proud – Walker trumped his opponent with some accurate numbers...
https://twitter.com/mrdanwalker/status/834291121165582336
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