The corporation's apology came after Trump threatened to file a million-dollar defamation suit against the it, unless it issued a retraction of the controversial October 2024 documentary.
The BBC’s latest piece betrays a dangerous yearning for violence, a longing to see Indian streets burn like Kathmandu’s in the hope of unsettling Modi’s stable India.
NYT, BBC, The Guardian among others used pictures of emaciated Palestinian boy Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, cradled in his mother’s arms, passing the images off as a face of Israel-inflicted starvation in Gaza.
A BBC-commissioned review revealed that its Gaza documentary breached editorial guidelines on accuracy. The corporation admitted failure in oversight, prompting Ofcom to launch an investigation into whether the programme misled the public.
This week, BBC’s Newsnight plumbed new depths—airing a grotesque display of institutional gaslighting that downplayed Pakistani grooming gangs and pinned the blame for rampant sexual abuse on White Britons instead.
Gary Lineker, former England footballer and one of the highest paid BBC employee (some reports say highest), shared a video through his Instagram account where Jews were again compared to rats. BBC, the self-proclaimed neutral voice, which doesn't even call terrorists terrorists because they have to be 'neutral', has no problem with its presenters calling Jews rats.
BBC Hindi recently published an article that described Pakistan COAS Asim Munir with humanizing tropes such as "headmaster's son" despite the fact that his anti-Hindu venom foreshadowed the Pahalgam massacre.