Matt Murphy

January 21, 2026

BBC Verify recycles ‘yellow line’ claims

Less than two weeks after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip came into effect and four days after demar...

July 20, 2025

Multi-platform BBC framing of a proposal with no plan or budget

On July 18th the BBC News website published an item titled “Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civ...

July 7, 2025

Behind the BBC’s ‘400 aid distribution points’ narrative

Last week the head of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) criticised a claim made in a report by ...

June 6, 2025

How BBC framing of the GHF toes the UN line

In our discussion of BBC promotion of a narrative concerning an alleged fatal incident near Rafah on...

October 15, 2024

BBC News facilitation of UNIFIL talking points

Over the past week or so, visitors to the BBC News website – and in particular its ‘Middle Eastâ...

September 24, 2024

Multiple BBC reports promote anonymous unsubstantiated claims

On September 18th – the day after the explosions of Hizballah pagers in Lebanon and Syria R...

August 15, 2024

BBC News website coverage of strike on Hizballah commander

Previously we discussed the BBC News website’s coverage of the July 27th Hizballah rocket attack o...

August 7, 2024

Omissions in BBC reporting on terrorism and counter-terrorism

On August 3rd the BBC News website published a report headlined “Iran says Hamas leader killed fro...

July 7, 2024

BBC News corrects inaccurate claims concerning ICC warrants

Last month we documented a BBC News website report dating from June 12th in which readers were misle...

June 25, 2024

BBC News website promotes inaccurate claims about ICC warrants

On June 12th the BBC News website published a report by Matt Murphy headlined ‘Israel, Hamas accus...