Casualty figures

August 25, 2024

BBC News continues to promote Hamas casualty claims

On August 15th the Gaza ministry of health – which is of course run by the terrorist organisation ...

August 12, 2024

The sources behind another BBC “targeting schools” report

On August 10th the BBC News website published an uncredited report under the headline “Dozens repo...

July 22, 2024

BBC News continues to mainstream lies about Gaza casualty figures

Earlier this month we documented the deliberate promotion of disinformation concerning casualty figu...

July 11, 2024

BBC Two’s ‘Newsnight’ provides a platform for disinformation

The lead item in the July 9th edition of BBC Two’s ‘Newsnight’ was presented as “Joe Biden F...

July 2, 2024

How did the BBC report the IPC’s latest ‘famine’ study?

Readers may recall that in late March the BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen reported that: [...

June 30, 2024

Unbalanced BBC portrayal of yet another UN report

On June 19th the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten headlined ‘Israeli strikes o...

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 14, 2024

More narrative-driven BBC coverage of the hostage rescue in Nuseirat

Previously we discussed three BBC reports – two written and one filmed – which appeared in the h...

June 13, 2024

BBC News yet again touts Hamas denials of exploitation of hospitals

Readers no doubt recall that back in April the BBC News website promoted unverified (and later debun...

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...