The site features graphic clips of men having anal sex (Picture: Twitter/Getty)

BBC News accidentally quoted a Tweet from a hardcore gay porn site in an article about Donald Trump and Russian collusion.

We kid you not.

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The BBC brought in critics from social media over Trump’s outbursts on Twitter as his former campaign manager was charged with conspiracy against the United States.

Paul Manafort was asked to surrender himself to the FBI to face charges over allegedly laundering millions of dollars for work he was doing on behalf of a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine, fuelling more claims about Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.


But far from bringing in a credible source for a serious news item, the BBC featured a quoted from TitanMen.



Here’s how the BBC reported a Tweet from a gay porn site

They apparently didn’t know it is a hardcore porn site, which claims to produce the ‘best gay adult entertainment on the planet’.

After commenting on Trump’s Twitter tirade about Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the BBC reported: ‘Critics on Twitter were quick to accuse him of attempting to divert attention from the Russian investigation by complaining about the lack of focus on an opponent he defeated in the presidential election nearly a year ago.’

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It then included TitanMen’s response: ‘She’s not the President, you are….Nice try at distracting from indictments coming on Monday. He who doth protest too much…’

TitanMen has earned 78k followers for its steady stream of graphic clips showing men having anal sex.

The BBC eventually realised the slip some hours later, and updated the article with a different social media comment.

The story about Paul Manafort’s alleged money laundering was slightly undermined (Picture: Getty)

Seeing the funny side of BBC’s mistake, the porn site added: ‘LOL! BBC posted our Trump Twitter comment, then realized we were a gay porn company and deleted it!’

TitanMen then joked: ‘We like to think of ourselves as the thinking man’s porn!’

The embarrassing gaffe was soon picked up on Twitter, with one user commenting: ‘BBC embedding tweets from a NSFW account. Kinda stopped reading the article and had a gander at TitanMen instead.’

The BBC was approached for further comment.

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