Complaints

August 26, 2025

BBC partly corrects Lebanon ‘shelling’ claim over sixteen months later

Back in early April 2024 we documented the BBC’s failure to update a report that had appeared on M...

August 21, 2025

Another BBC interpretation of editorial guidelines on ‘Contributors’ Affiliations’

In early April 2024 we discussed a BBC News website report by the corporation’s Geneva correspond...

August 3, 2025

The BBC explains what its editorial guidelines on ‘contributors’ affiliations’ really mean

Back in April we documented a BBC News website report about the release of a convicted terrorist who...

July 30, 2025

BBC refuses to correct report promoting unverified claim

Last week we noted that on July 12th, the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten in wh...

July 29, 2025

BBC portrays terrorist as ‘Pro-Palestinian convict’ and ‘teacher’

On July 25th the BBC promoted a report by its Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield: Readers of Schofie...

July 24, 2025

BBC News promotes unsourced, unevidenced arson claim

A report by David Gritten which was published on the BBC News website on July 12th includes the foll...

July 13, 2025

BBC Complaints says ‘anyone can call themselves a lawyer’

Last week we documented the BBC Geneva correspondent’s repeated portrayal of the controversial Un...

June 29, 2025

BBC partly corrects misrepresentation of number of hostages

Last week we documented a BBC News website report which misrepresented the number of hostages still ...

June 23, 2025

Inaccuracy and omission in BBC report on Geneva talks

On the evening of June 20th the BBC News website published a report credited to freelancer Rachel Mu...

June 9, 2025

BBC corrects ‘500 trucks’ claim in two languages

Last month we noted the BBC’s repeated promotion – including by its fact checking department...