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• Believes that women largely bear the brunt of invisible workplace responsibilities which is taxing and uncompensated and considers it to have the value of an extra shift.
• During the Falklands War, the BBC forewarned the Argentinian army on an imminent attack on Goose Green, leading to excessive casualties.
• Upheld complaint against Today presenter Justin Webb for saying trans women are males.
• CBBC actor, Daniel Frogson, downloaded 848 sick child abuse images.
• Almost £100m written off by BBC as digital archive project is scrapped.
• Distributed Al Qaeda propaganda to youngsters.
• You do not need a climate change denier to balance the debate.
• Funded paintballing trip for Islamic terrorists and didn't pass information to UK services about the 21/7 bombers.
• Cited a statement from Hamas claiming an Israeli air strike was to blame for the atrocity that killed hundreds at a hospital. Later reports discovered it was a Hamas rocket.
• A lady several hours late for her flight is required to purchase another ticket to travel to her destination.
• Inbreeding between cousins is not a cause of congenital anomalies.
• The greatest effect of governments borrowing and spending recklessly is not inflation.
• Automatic weapons, bombs and underground tunnel networks in a hospital are not substantial evidence of a major operation.
• Purchasing items is described as being "torn" from their previous owner.
• Someone that refuses to purchase within their means, budget sensibly or retain a partner while having a child is worthy of an article.
• Took 8 weeks to confirm Hamas raped and mutilated women in the October 7th attacks in Israel.
• Claimed Jussie Smollet needed hospital treatment after two men punched him in the face and police were treating it as a hate crime. Claimed the offenders wore KKK outfits, wrapped a rope around his neck, poured bleach on him in Wintertime Chicago at 2am.
• Considers a lady failing to complete required paperwork being threatened with deportation as newsworthy.
• Plagiarism by Claudine Gay is a conservative talking point and only "alleged" despite overwhelming evidence and admissions.
• Asylum seekers describing their government provided accommodation as having nearby trees being too loud in the wind and that the bathroom was cold in the Winter is worthy of an article.
• Scheduling coordinator, Dawn Queva, said on social media "Nazi apartheid parasites" funded a "holohoax" and described white people as "melanin-recessive parasites".
• Africa Editor for the World Service, Mary Harper, was an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals fight deportation, including a vile offender who sexually attacked a deaf teenage girl.
• Staff told not to hire candidates who are "dismissive" of diversity.
• Minimising the dangers and risks of transmission of HIV: "People like to ask me if I was risky or unlucky - everyone with HIV is unlucky.".

COVID-19

• Described the COVID-19 lab leak theory as "conspiracy theory", "false claim", "baseless claim" and had been pushed by conspiracy groups while pushing Chinese propaganda that it originated in the US.
• Misrepresented COVID-19 risk to boost lockdown support.
• We are all at risk of COVID-19 and that the virus does not discriminate, despite the risk to over 75's being 10,000 times higher than under 15s.
• Gave the impression that hospitals were being overwhelmed during the first wave, despite hospital bed occupancy being at an all time low.
• Routinely reported COVID-19 deaths of healthy young adults, giving the impression that these were common despite them being extremely rare.

Lies by Omission, Hearsay and Passive Language

• Girl dies after boat capsizes, after a group of illegal traffickers possibly deliberately sabotage their raft.
• Reporting Palestinian hearsay about Israeli military strategy.
• A lorry killed 84 people, not the driver and his beliefs.
• Newmarket man is charged with murder. Police found a body in Taiwo Abodunde's home.
• Man charged after pregnant woman stabbed. Mihai Popescu charged with stabbing a heavily pregnant women.
• Man denies seaside park rape charge. Saad Gomaa, an Egyptian asylum seeker, having spent 40 days in the UK allegedly raped a woman in a park.
• Young girls being brought from UK to Pakistan to marry their cousin in false pretences "should not be considered an issue just within Muslim communities".

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