When Tim Davie, the former BBC director-general, announced the expansion of BBC Verify, the organisation’s external fact-checking branch, last May, he claimed it would ‘nurture trust’ among readers, watchers and listeners of ‘the world’s most trusted news provider’. How did Verify get on?

Well, after making misleading claims about racially motivated attacks in the wake of the 2024 Southport stabbings, wrongly claiming that car insurers were charging an ‘ethnicity penalty’ for drivers, and citing a journalist employed by an Iranian news agency owned by........

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