A scandal is breaking in the media industry with allegations of editorial impropriety at NewsThump, one of the world’s most trusted online news sources.

Trusted by almost 500,000 subscribers to bring them the news every day NewsThump are reeling at allegations levelled at some of their top journalists that they are simply making stuff up.

“Of course we make stuff up, it’s satire you dumb bastards” said Simon Williams of NewsThump in a call with our intern Douglas this morning.

Well they would say that now that they’ve been caught, wouldn’t they?