BBC Verify

April 21, 2025

Airbrushing terrorists from the BBC’s ‘permanent public record’

As readers may know, the BBC’s editorial guidelines state that “[t]he archive of the BBCR...

April 11, 2025

Another example of the BBC’s failure to vet ‘trusted local journalists’

Previously we discussed a BBC News website March 23rd report about a strike on a senior Hamas offici...

March 23, 2025

BBC Verify quotes and promotes unverified Hamas casualty figures

On March 20th the BBC News website published a filmed report titled “BBC Verify: Assessing Israel&...

March 20, 2025

BBC reports fail to tell all about targets of Gaza airstrikes

In the early hours of March 18th, around two hours after the commencement of airstrikes in the Gaza ...

February 9, 2025

Predictable BBC framing in coverage of Trump’s Gaza Strip proposals

Remarks made by the US president during a press conference following the Israeli prime minister’s ...

February 6, 2025

BBC continues to sideline Hamas exploitation of Gaza humanitarian zone

On January 30th the BBC News website published a short report by George Wright titled “Hamas confi...

February 2, 2025

BBC Verify misinformation on location of Israeli town corrected

Last week we noted that a report by the BBC’s fact-checking and “anti-disinformation” departme...

January 29, 2025

More pointless ‘analysis’ from BBC Verify

On January 21st – two days after the release of the first three Israeli hostages under the ter...

January 27, 2025

BBC Verify promotes more of the ‘1974 ceasefire agreement violation’ narrative

On the evening of January 23rd the BBC’s expanding ‘anti-disinformation’ department BBC Verify...

January 13, 2025

BBC promotes The Lancet report on Gaza casualty figures

In July 2024 The Lancet published a speculative letter estimating that up to 186,000 deaths in the G...