Social media

March 7, 2017

BBC waives chance to inform on Fatah Facebook incitement

Shortly after a surge in terror attacks against Israelis began in the autumn of 2015, the BBC News w...

December 7, 2016

Reviewing BBC reporting on social media incitement in Europe and Israel

In October 2015 the BBC News website produced a backgrounder which underwent extensive editing duri...

October 25, 2016

UK Media Watch prompts Indy correction to Palestinian ‘news outlet’ Facebook ‘ban’ claim

The Indy failed to note that the "news organizations" in question (Quds News Network and Shehab News...

October 10, 2016

Major omissions in BBC News report on Jerusalem terror attack

On the morning of October 9th a terror attack in which two people were killed and five others were w...

September 20, 2016

BBC still portraying incitement as an ‘Israel says’ story

Back in October 2015 the BBC News website produced a backgrounder titled “Is Palestinian-Israeli...

July 19, 2016

Poor BBC reporting on Palestinian incitement again mars audience understanding

As has been noted here on numerous occasions, the BBC has made little serious effort to inform its a...

March 2, 2016

Revisiting the BBC’s ‘explanation’ of the current wave of terror

Back in October 2015 the BBC News website produced a much amended and problematic backgrounder title...

December 2, 2015

Does offensive Twitter account belong to a BBC employee?

BBC editorial guidelines on “Personal use of Social Networking and other third party websites&...

October 27, 2015

BBC backgrounder manipulates audience perceptions of wave of terror in Israel

Those visiting the BBC News website’s Middle East page may have come across an article current...

December 29, 2014

Should BBC News allow its agenda to be dictated by social media?

December 28th saw the appearance of a filmed report in the technology section of the BBC News websit...