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The perils of Googles Images

Pity whichever hapless BBC researcher was in a hurry to find a background image for a report on the UN Security Council today and instead managed to post this. As someone on Reddit notes, “I’m pretty sure that’s not the United Nations emblem, BBC”.

Well, it sort of is: as a less cursory look on Google Images would have revealed, it isin fact the emblem of United Nations Space Command in the video game Zombie Pandemic.

Hooray for rolling news, eh readers?

Correction: as Peter rightly points out in the comments below, a look cursory look on Google Images would have revealed that the emblem in fact originates in the video game Halo, and was then adopted by a group of Halo fans playing on Zombie Pandemic.

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Well done BBC