Shayan Sardarizadeh

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...

July 8, 2025

BBC News website amplification of unsubstantiated leaked claims

Two days after the US had conducted strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran, a BBC News website ...

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 23, 2025

BBC News website reporting on strikes around the European hospital

Last week the BBC News website published several items relating to strikes carried out on May 13th a...

March 23, 2025

BBC Verify quotes and promotes unverified Hamas casualty figures

On March 20th the BBC News website published a filmed report titled “BBC Verify: Assessing Israel&...

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...

November 5, 2023

Social media ‘influencers’ and Nazi analogy in BBC News reporting

The November 3rd edition of BBC domestic television’s 6 p.m. news included an item relating to an ...

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...