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The BBC is currently embroiled in an election interference scandal after it doctored a video of the President to fit the BBC's chosen political narrative.

And it turns out this was just one of a series of political interventions made by the BBC.

This comes after a string of child sexual abuse scandals and cover-ups perpetrated by senior members of the BBC.

The BBC is an alternative news source we'd do well to avoid

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Hardly an election interference of a fairly crap panorama special that wasn't even available to watch in the USA. We can all fairly easily agree GBNEWS is the bottom of the barrel

what’s your preferred mainstream (or alt) news source?

The Telegraph is okay, but I find GB News publishes the stories that mainstream media chooses to avoid and/or minimise.

Without GB News' coverage of the migrant crisis, the UK public would be barely aware that 110,000 undocumented young men had entered the country in the last three years, many of whom have been housed in hotels at the taxpayer's expense.

And I don't think the Tavistock Center would have been forced to close in disgrace, had it not been for GB News reporting of the dubious and untested medical interventions being made on children there.

BBC Newsnight aired the story first in June 2020.

Also, the BBC first reported on the boat immigration crisis on "BBC South East" regarding small boat arrivals in 2014.

GB News wasn't launched until June 2021, so they can't take much credit here.

Daily Mail is likely to buy The Telegraph, which honestly worries me.

I’m sorry that you are upset that the BBC edit showed the president calling for violence in a summarized form that is apparently extremely different from his long form call for violence.

This whole scandal is straight up 1984 “don’t believe your lying eyes” level bullshit

They literally changed the meaning of his words. Dont be partisan.

He called for violence at the capital. How was the meaning of his words changed?

Because he did not.

The BBC ended up apologizing and the general director resigning, so obviously they know they fucked up.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c874nw4g2zzo

I think if you watch the two videos (original vs edited) you'll understand just how egregious this editing was. And it's not the first time the BBC has deliberately misquoted Trump to make him look like he is inciting.

There is another news show where they did similar.

And 2018, the BBC to to Twitter to misquote Trump as saying "war [with Iran] will follow" as opposed to what he actually said ("more will follow").

Their "apology" was blatent trolling - when called out on their fake quote, they replied "#ourbad" (yes, hashtag "ourbad")

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/26/bad-bbc-accused-...

I did watch both the edit and the long form when I watched on the edge of my seat during the day of.

He called for violence on Jan 6th. Now we need to pretend he didn’t because he’s the king and everyone is bending the knee.

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