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Allegations of BBC political bias in 2025 erupted into a full-blown crisis after a leaked memo and an edited Trump video prompted senior resignations and widespread debate; public trust is sharply div...
The BBC is the subject of intense debate in late 2025 after a leaked memo alleging systemic editorial failings and the resignations of senior executives; Reuters and Reuters Institute reporting note t...
Claims about BBC impartiality are longstanding and contested: recent reporting shows a major 2025 crisis over an edited Trump clip and a leaked memo alleging “systemic” editorial bias that prompted re...
The BBC acknowledged that Panorama and other BBC programmes spliced parts of Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021, speech so that separate lines spoken nearly an hour apart appeared contiguous, creating the...
The core claim is that the BBC has shown , prompting accusations of bias and a political campaign to “Balance the BBC”; independent analyses found Reform UK received markedly high airtime in key bulle...
The BBC’s Panorama episode spliced together at least three separate moments from Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 speech so that the composite clip made him appear to say “We’re going to walk down to the C...
The BBC issued internal editorial guidance on reporting gender and transgender issues that originated around 2020 and was later revised; the guidance emphasized , and subsequent updates added more det...
The BBC’s Panorama episode spliced two parts of Donald Trump’s 6 January 2021 speech so a line saying “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol … and we fight. We fight like hell” appeared to run toget...
The main controversy centers on a Panorama segment that spliced together two parts of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech—one line near the start (“We’re gonna walk down, and I’ll be there with you”) ...
Several major international outlets reported and reacted to the revelation that the BBC’s Panorama program had spliced together portions of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 speech — a finding that led to r...
Critics point chiefly to a Panorama documentary that spliced three excerpts of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 Ellipse speech into a 12-second clip, making two lines spoken more than 50 minutes apart appe...
The BBC has been widely accused in recent reporting of misleadingly editing Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary by combining excerpts nearly an hour apart, creating the imp...
Karoline Leavitt’s recent remark originated in multiple, overlapping exchanges between the White House press operation and individual reporters, with the clearest documented incident a social-media-sh...