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April 26, 2024

How did a BBC report on ‘mass graves’ come about?

The evolution of a news story is sometimes no less interesting than the story itself. One such examp...

April 21, 2024

Omissions in BBC coverage of Qatari PM’s statement

On the evening of April 17th the BBC News website published a report by Wyre Davies and David Gritte...

March 14, 2024

A non-story from BBC Arabic and BBC Verify

On March 10th the BBC News website published a report produced by BBC Verify and BBC Arabic under th...

March 1, 2024

Weekend long read

1) At the Long War Journal, David Daoud reports on Hizballah’s rocket arsenal. “Hezbollah entere...

February 16, 2024

BBC News ignores Al Jazeera journalists stories

Hot on the heels of the discovery of a Hamas data centre in a tunnel complex located underneath UNR...

February 4, 2024

BBC News website briefing promotes Qatari talking points

On January 27th the BBC News website published another instalment in its series titled “The Israel...

January 26, 2024

Weekend long read

1) MEMRI reports on ‘South Africa’s Diplomatic Campaign Against Israel’. “On December 29...

January 10, 2024

More BBC amplification of Al Jazeera’s ‘targeting journalists’ falsehood

In May 2023 the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman promoted a report concerning Israel produced by...

December 15, 2023

BBC News uncritically promotes framing from inadequately presented source

On December 8th the BBC News website produced three items of content relating to social media video ...

November 29, 2023

Jeremy Bowen’s Radio 4 hostage deal claims do not hold water

Previously we discussed one of several items concerning news of a deal to free some of the hostages...