BBC Verify
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Claims
- Uses news agency associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as verification sources on the Israeli war in Gaza.[1]
- Relied upon Mahmoud Awadeyah, a man associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and whose social media timeline is filled with antisemitic content as a verification source in Israel war in Gaza.[1]
- Hosted a podcast episode and debunking articles of parody accounts on Twitter.[2]
- Antisemitic employees cited Hamas terrorists and sympathisers to confirm antisemitic conspiracy theories.[3]
- Cites journalist who mourned death of a Hamas terrorist.[4]
- Falsely claimed Carl Benjamin's youtube channel was suspended.[5]
- Falsely claimed Milo Yiannopoulos travelled to Totnes.[5]
- Falsely claimed Carl Benjamin returned to Totnes.[5]
- Falsely claimed Carl Benjamin made "rape threats" against Jess Phillips.[5]
- Journalist Marianna Spring claimed to have reported on International News during the World Cup, specifically the perception of Russia, with BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford on her CV which was found to be untrue.[6]
- States the rate of absolute poverty in the UK is at 18% using a definition that is very different with the standard definition from the World Bank of earning $1.90 per day.[7][8]
- Reform Party candidate Nigel Farage claimed that the UK was the World's seventh biggest exporter, BBC and BBC Verify said that was only true if you didn't exclude entire categories of goods.[9]