BBC Verify

July 30, 2024

Avoiding the issues: the story of a complaint to the BBC

In October 2023 the BBC News website published several items of content produced by the BBC Verify t...

July 28, 2024

More promotion of the BBC’s selective narrative on Hizballah

Note: this post was written before the Hizballah rocket attack which killed twelve children in Majda...

July 19, 2024

NJA Q&A with the BBC News Director of News Content

On July 17th the National Jewish Assembly (NJA) hosted a special Zoom Q&A event featuring Richar...

July 17, 2024

BBC reports on strike on Hamas leaders ignore the issue of human shields

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on the morning of July 15th found the fo...

June 24, 2024

The knock-on effects of BBC accuracy failures

We have observed in the past that BBC content which fails to adhere to editorial guidelines on accur...

June 10, 2024

Omission and inaccuracy in BBC reporting on hostage rescue

On the afternoon of June 8th, not long after news had broken of the rescue of four Israeli hostages ...

May 31, 2024

Looking behind the BBC’s ‘70% women and children’ mantra

On April 1st we noted on these pages that: “Since the beginning of the current conflict the BBC ha...

May 7, 2024

Twenty-two years on, the BBC again promotes the notion of ‘war crimes’ in Jenin

As we have noted in the past, one can always tell when the BBC seeks to make waves and influence opi...

April 16, 2024

BBC News website coverage of Iranian regime attack on Israel

Previously we noted the BBC’s continuing amplification of unconfirmed Iranian regime claims that a...

April 14, 2024

Ros Atkins and BBC Verify jump the shark

On the morning of April 13th a filmed report titled “Ros Atkins on… UK arms exports to Israe...