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Low-Octane Gaslighting – THE BBC

This makes for a unique case of accountability.

After days of upheaval, jobs have been lost in the upper reaches of the BBC as a result of the editing scandal that emerged last week. Last Fall, days before the national election, the network put out a documentary about Donald Trump, and in it was seen a dose of malicious editing to make his speech given on January 6 sound like he had compelled the crowd to go to the Capitol and riot.

The outlet elected to eliminate the portions where Trump mentioned protesting peacefully, and cut in another unrelated segment from the speech, spoken nearly one hour later, to make it sound like Trump called for violence. The effort by the BBC to manipulate this in a slanderous fashion was seen in the portion where the audio was cut and pasted, and the video makes an edit to other images, while the audio is presented in an allegedly uncut fashion.

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