Jake Horton

August 31, 2025

Twenty months on, the BBC replies to a complaint about its Al Ahli coverage

Back in October 2023 we documented the BBC News website’s publication of a report by BBC Verify ti...

June 22, 2025

BBC promotes Iranian disinformation and then loses interest

On the morning of June 19th the BBC News website opened a live page with the first entry telling aud...

May 26, 2025

BBC Verify once again promotes ‘500 trucks’ misinformation

On May 20th the BBC News website published a filmed report titled “BBC Verify examines Israeli str...

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...

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...

March 6, 2024

BBC Verify yet again plays the stooge for Hamas casualty figures

On the afternoon of February 29th a BBC Verify report titled “Israel Gaza: Checking Israel’s...

October 29, 2023

Reviewing BBC Verify reporting on the al Ahli hospital incident

Given that BBC coverage of the explosion at al Ahli hospital in the Gaza Strip on the evening of Oct...