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How a little bit of internet awareness could have spared Fleet Street's blushes

Great little example of the way bad information spreads - and could be corrected (but isn't) - out there on the internet today.

This weekend was the birthday party of one Charles Windsor, known to his friends as the Prince of Wales. He's got a few big name mates - and they were all headed to his birthday party.

Telegraph got a look at the guest list, saying "Celebrity friends who were invited to the Prince's Gloucestershire home are understood to have included Stephen Fry, Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar".

But by the time that the Sunday Times got round to reporting the party, we heard that that guest list had firmed up:

"Seventy-five guests, including the television stars Stephen Fry and Dame Judi Dench, began to arrive at Highgrove, the country home of Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, shortly before six o'clock yesterday for an evening of entertainment, celebration and the prince's own organic food."

The details are so colourful I can almost hear their jowls chomping away from here.

Except thanks to social media we can be pretty certain that the facts were a bit skewiff... at least one guest, Stephen Fry, wasn't there.

Anyone who follows his immense stream of Twitter updates (40 in the last 24 hours alone) will know that he's been travelling back to the UK from Madagascar where he's been doing some filming.

The Times wasn't the only one who simply decided everyone who was invited turned up. And OK, it's hardly scandalous ... but come on, really?

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