Fake News

May 27, 2025

How is the BBC handling its own promotion of ‘14,000 babies’ disinformation?

As we noted last week, on May 20th the BBC News website posted a filmed report titled “Gazan babie...

June 2, 2023

The BBC announces yet another anti-disinformation project

For several years now the BBC has been touting itself as an antidote to ‘fake news’ and ‘disin...

January 18, 2021

Unverified claims and Assad propaganda in BBC News Syria strikes report

On January 13th a report headlined “Syria war: Suspected Israeli strikes on Iran-linked targets &#...

December 22, 2020

BBC ‘fake health advice’ fact checking comes to a halt in Bethlehem

Nearly four years ago the Guardian reported that: “The BBC is to assemble a team to fact check a...

April 7, 2020

BBC Trending requests Coronavirus fake news

Readers may have noticed that the BBC complaints procedure is currently once again working at less t...

March 31, 2020

BBC News Channel grossly misleads on Israeli courts

Previously we noted that reports on BBC radio and the BBC News website relating to cell phone tracki...

December 30, 2018

The BBC, 2018 ‘fake news’ and fact checking

The BBC's focus on 'fake news' should begin at home....

November 2, 2018

BBC Monitoring claims to take on the ‘manipulation of messaging’

BBC Monitoring is taking on 'fake news': so how is its own record? ...

January 1, 2018

BBC News report on 2017 ‘fake news’ excludes its own

The BBC provides an interestingly narrow definition of 'fake news'. ...

January 15, 2017

The Independent repeats ‘fake news’, claiming “50 racist laws” in Israel

CAMERA and other watchdog groups have refuted Adalah’s claims that there are 50 "racist laws" in ...