Jemimah Herd

September 14, 2025

BBC Verify’s experts on proportionality include Corbyn ‘Gaza tribunal’ participants

The concept of proportionality – or as it is more often presented, ‘disproportionality’ – ha...

October 1, 2024

BBC Verify under informs and editorialises on Beirut strikes

On the morning of September 29th a report by BBC Verify on the topic of the elimination of Hassan Na...

September 29, 2024

BBC Verify avoids the ‘why’ in report on damage in Lebanon

When the BBC launched its “new brand” BBC Verify in May 2023, the CEO of BBC News Deborah Turnes...

February 25, 2024

BBC News website coverage of the Nasser hospital operation

The recent IDF operation at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis received considerable coverage on the...

October 30, 2023

Reviewing BBC Verify reporting on the Salah al Din road explosion

Previously we have discussed reporting by the BBC’s relatively new fact-checking brand BBC Verify ...