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• Reform Party candidate Nigel Farage claimed that the UK was the World's seventh biggest exporter, The BBC said that was only true if you didn't exclude entire categories of goods.
• Opposition to illegal immigration is a far right idea.
• Fails to mention that a female boxer retiring after 46seconds in a fight after receiving a suspected broken nose was fighting a male fighter at the Olympics.
• Described Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of a proscribed Islamic terror group Hamas as "moderate and pragmatic".
• Alex Kay-Jelski, director of sport, believes that not allowing men to compete in women's sports is comparable to not allowing Jamaican sprinters and Ethiopian marathon runners to compete in events.
• Took 5months to admit that rapes may have occurred during the October 7th attacks in Israel.
• Forced to apologise for describing Reform Party as "far right".
• BBC lifted fought in court to lift the anonymity order of the police officer who shot Chris Kaba, a member of a London gang.
• Refuses to call Hamas a terrorist organisation, despite it being a proscribed terrorist group.
• 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.
• Made a direct comparison between the Nazi occupation of France and Marine Le Pen's National Rally political party.
• Distributed Al Qaeda propaganda to youngsters.
• You do not need a climate change denier to balance the debate.
• Presenter, David Aaronovitch, calls for the assassination of Donald Trump. A few weeks later someone attempted to assassinate Donald Trump with a firearm.
• Didn't mention the racially motivated murder of Kriss Donald until day 18 of the trial.
• 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.
• In a debate where Joe Biden is described as "incoherent", the headline was that a his political competitor was evading questions.
• 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.
• Reported that £1billion in PPE is insufficient for managing COVID-19, yet £1.4billion in COVID-19 PPE is later destroyed.
• 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.".
• Described Jean-Luc Melenchon, a self described communist, as "centre-left".
• Detailed the weight loss journey of a man later convicted of plotting to kidnap, rape and murder Holly Willoughby.

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, Incompetence and Passive Language

• Described an assassination attempt with a firearm on Donald Trump as "loud bangs".
• Fails to mention the full nature of the anti-white and antisemitic letter Diane Abbott wrote.
• Described critics as "claiming" a woman got a job because she is a woman, when the only reason she was successful was because of inclusivity rules where a man would have won otherwise.
• 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".
• Stated that the Chinese economy grew 4.7% in a 3month period, when it was reporting on the annualised growth rate.

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