19 February 2025, 13:51 | Updated: 19 February 2025, 13:56

By Alex Hearn

I love the BBC, so it gives me no pleasure to criticise the institution that I know some people would like to see dismantled.

The 21st century is a “post-truth” digital world, exemplified by the Israel-Hamas conflict, which has seen many newsrooms misleading their audiences.

But surely the well-resourced BBC are better than that. We pay our license fee for them to be the gold standard, and often they are. Give them a domestic story, and they probably won’t struggle to verify identities or fact-check.

But since the October 7 attacks in Israel, the BBC has been accused of spreading anti-Israel propaganda. In the case of BBC Arabic, it was found to employ........

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