Thomas Mackintosh

July 1, 2025

What was the focus of BBC reporting on the Gaza Strip in June 2025?

In early June we documented the BBC’s extensive reporting of a story that had not actually happene...

June 29, 2025

BBC partly corrects misrepresentation of number of hostages

Last week we documented a BBC News website report which misrepresented the number of hostages still ...

June 25, 2025

Omission and inaccuracy in BBC report on recovery of hostages’ bodies

June 22nd saw the appearance of a BBC News website report which currently goes under the headline �...

December 29, 2024

Priorities in BBC coverage of Israeli strikes on Houthi targets

On the afternoon of December 26th the BBC News website published reports concerning Israeli attacks ...

October 13, 2024

BBC News website documentation of weapons in southern Lebanon

As readers may have already noticed, the BBC’s abundant coverage of events in Lebanon during the p...

September 12, 2024

BBC News promotes unverified Hamas supplied casualty toll

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page early on the morning of September 10th w...

August 12, 2024

The sources behind another BBC “targeting schools” report

On August 10th the BBC News website published an uncredited report under the headline “Dozens repo...

June 14, 2024

More narrative-driven BBC coverage of the hostage rescue in Nuseirat

Previously we discussed three BBC reports – two written and one filmed – which appeared in the h...

June 2, 2024

BBC reports on Tal al Sultan fire promote misinformation

On May 27th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Deadly explosion reported in Gaza r...

April 24, 2024

Reviewing three BBC reports about a terror attack

Between April 13th and April 16th the BBC News website published three reports about the disappearan...