BBC ‘doctored’ Trump speech - one of many examples of BBC deceit

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Not just the BBC and not just the UK.

Apparently Sweden did the same thing.

Proof positive (in my view) that this wasn't an isolated faux pas by a "politically partisan" newsroom. It can't be a coincidence they both pushed the same fake conspiracy theory. Let's see if more comes out. It's possible this was a coordinated attack involving multiple state media. But orchestrated by who? If there's an American deep-state, there's an EU deep-state too...

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1989020833738564029
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
HOLY SMOKES. Swedish Media @svt
also appears to have EDITED Trump’s speech on January 6th to make it look like he called for an insurrection, just like the BBC did

[norman]

The USAID Connection: Laundering Censorship Through “Development” Funds

Sayer Ji's Substack




In early 2025, a startling shake-up at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) drew attention to a global censorship network reaching into American discourse. As investigative journalist Mike Benz revealed on Newsmax, the Trump administration abruptly put most USAID staff on leave amid allegations that taxpayer funds were being “laundered” through media organizations to control narratives. On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST), all USAID direct hire personnel were placed on administrative leave globally, except for a select group managing mission-critical functions.

At the center of this storm was the BBC. The broadcaster, via its development arm BBC Media Action, has received substantial USAID funding over multiple years. According to BBC Media Action’s own press release from February 4, 2025, USAID contributed approximately £0.9 million ($1.1 million) to BBC Media Action in the 2017-2018 financial year alone, as part of a broader financial relationship spanning several years. BBC Media Action’s 2023-2024 funding chart prominently lists USAID as contributing £2,613k (approximately $3.3 million), making it one of the organization’s top donors.

The arrangement effectively “laundered” U.S. taxpayer money into foreign censorship efforts. Instead of merely producing public-interest media, BBC Media Action has been accused of aligning with a broader campaign to silence independent voices under the guise of combating “misinformation.” As I noted in my previous report, “The way USAID has funneled taxpayer funds into BBC Media Action and the Trusted News Initiative, effectively laundering transatlantic influence operations to suppress U.S. citizens’ constitutional rights, demonstrates a clear violation of democratic principles.”

The Trusted News Initiative: BBC’s Censorship Consortium


The BBC is often regarded as an extension of the UK government, functioning as a tool for soft power projection across the world. Its influence has expanded through initiatives like the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), which actively seeks to regulate online discourse under the banner of combating misinformation. Founded by the BBC in 2019, TNI is a partnership between major media outlets, technology companies, and global organizations, ostensibly aimed at combating disinformation.

However, critics argue that TNI effectively creates an information cartel that determines what narratives are deemed legitimate. The BBC, as the initiator of TNI, has worked alongside major platforms like Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter/X to suppress viewpoints that contradict mainstream pharmaceutical and government stances on public health. Through partnerships with these tech giants, TNI’s efforts restrict independent voices while reinforcing the dominance of mainstream pharmaceutical, governmental, and corporate interests.




BBC and ISD: The “Disinformation” Hit List

GreenMedInfo was listed as among those “known disinformation” websites in the ISD/BBC report. The classification had serious consequences: GMI (and I) came under increasing attack, facing deplatforming, search engine suppression, and financial restrictions. During the 2021-2023 period of coordinated attacks (the “disinformation dozen” campaign), over 2 million of my followers were removed across social media ecosystem, and I was barred from using PayPal/Venmo both personally and professionally, cutting off critical revenue streams. Most concerning were black operations involving NATO stratcom, at least one threat of a lawfare campaign, not to mention the suppression of millions of followers who were prevented from receiving the messages and content they voluntarily elected to receive, a clear violation of our constitutional rights on both sides.



This joint investigation by ISD and BBC Click heavily scrutinized independent health sites by grouping them with far-right extremism and conspiracy theories. The methodology involved monitoring public Facebook pages and groups without obtaining consent, collecting engagement metrics, and using keyword-based parsing to label discussions as misinformation. This broad-stroke approach falsely conflated legitimate health discourse and heterodox medical views with radical ideologies, providing convenient pretext for censorship.





What is particularly alarming is the degree to which BBC Media Action’s funding from USAID appears to serve as a laundering mechanism for these suppression efforts. By framing alternative health platforms as threats to public health, the BBC (and by extension, USAID) justified their removal from social media, search engines, and financial platforms.

A key nexus between British state media and CCDH’s funding architecture is the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, one of 17 dark money funding sources behind CCDH, whose trustees include Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead (former Director-General of the BBC) and Sir Anthony Salz (former BBC Governor) are trustees of the foundation. This foundation’s direct grant to CCDH in 2021 reveals how ostensibly philanthropic institutions serve as conduits for media-aligned influence operations.

The “Disinformation Dozen”: A Coordinated Attack on American Citizens

The targeting of GreenMedInfo by entities with ties to USAID, BBC, and the Trusted News Initiative highlights a larger battle over who controls information. The weaponization of media and funding to silence dissenting voices in the health sphere is a direct threat to democratic discourse and individual rights.

In March 2021, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK-based organization, published a report claiming that 12 individuals were responsible for “65% of anti-vaccine misinformation” online. This became known as the “Disinformation Dozen” campaign. I was named as one of these twelve individuals, along with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dr. Joseph Mercola, and others.

At that very time, Tim Davie was serving as Director-General of the BBC — having assumed the position in September 2020 — and therefore presided over the corporation’s deepening entanglement with censorship partnerships. Under his leadership, the BBC not only expanded the Trusted News Initiative but also lent implicit and explicit support to CCDH’s “Disinformation Dozen” campaign through its coverage and institutional collaborations. Davie’s tenure thus coincided with the BBC’s active role in legitimizing and disseminating the CCDH narrative that was used to justify the targeting and deplatforming of lawful American speech

The BBC and other major media outlets amplified this campaign extensively, treating the claims as fact despite serious methodological flaws. However, in August 2021, Meta (Facebook) thoroughly debunked the CCDH’s central claim, revealing that the individuals named in the report were actually responsible for only about 0.05% of all views of vaccine-related content on Facebook—not the 65% claimed by the CCDH



Major Media Outlets Correct “Disinformation Dozen” Coverage—But Not the BBC

In a significant turn of events in 2024, major media outlets began correcting their previous reporting on the “Disinformation Dozen.” Three prominent organizations took steps to address their earlier coverage:

• The Independent added an update to their May 17, 2021 article “Study names 12 most dangerous anti-vaxxers in America,” broadly stating Meta’s objections to the CCDH study and providing a link for readers to view Meta’s full statement.
  
• Forbes added an update to their December 10, 2021 article “De-Platform The Disinformation Dozen,” referencing Meta’s statement and the report’s response.
  
• McGill University added a pinned comment to their March 10, 2022 YouTube video “A Dose of Science,” mentioning that Meta disputes the validity of the CCDH report.

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However, conspicuously absent from this list of corrections is the BBC. Despite issuing an apology and retracting their deceptively edited Trump documentary, the BBC has yet to correct or retract any of its extensive coverage promoting the discredited “Disinformation Dozen” narrative. This glaring double standard raises serious questions about the broadcaster’s commitment to accuracy and accountability.

Media Outlets Still Required to Correct Their “Disinformation Dozen” Coverage

The “Disinformation Dozen” campaign had an unprecedented reach across various media platforms. At its peak, a search for “Disinformation Dozen” yielded approximately 500,000 results on Bing and 84,000 results on Google, underscoring the campaign’s extensive influence and the potential for widespread reputational damage to the individuals named.



In a coordinated effort, the individuals named in the “Disinformation Dozen” report and their supporters have reached out to several dozen media outlets requesting corrections. The following outlets have yet to respond or issue corrections for their uncritical amplification of the discredited CCDH claims:

• BBC (all divisions)
  
• Huffington Post
  
• Newsweek
  
• Mashable
  
• Self Magazine
  
• NPR
  
• Times of Israel
  
• The Guardian
  
• Business Insider
  
• American Medical Association (AMA)
  
• ProPublica
  
• Booz Allen Hamilton
  
• CNBC
  
• NBC
  
• ABC
  
• ScienceAlert
  
• Daily Mail UK

Critically, these media corrections come long overdue and may indicate growing awareness among media outlets of their potential culpability and liability in wrongfully attacking the civil liberties of US citizens.

Sayer Ji's Substack

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

I remember CNN did a similar thing during the first Gulf War, only they weren't even in the Gulf at the time, but a studio in the US. How do these broadcasters even keep their license?

https://x.com/JohnLeFevre/status/1988982285924978805
John LeFevre
@JohnLeFevre
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21h
The BBC has always been a joke...

Here's Chief Correspondent, Jeremy Bowen, pretending to be under Russian attack when an elderly Ukrainian lady walking her dog stops to make sure he's okay.

[Mari]

Mark (Star Mariner) stated:

" Not just the BBC and not just the UK.
Apparently Sweden did the same thing.

Proof positive (in my view) that this wasn't an isolated faux pas by a "politically partisan" newsroom. It can't be a coincidence they both pushed the same fake conspiracy theory. Let's see if more comes out. It's possible this was a coordinated attack involving multiple state media. But orchestrated by who? If there's an American deep-state, there's an EU deep-state too..."




There's a Global 'hand' that oversees all the other 'deep states', a vast coordinated web of control. Evidence of this is when the Covid scam took off...virtually every country in the world acted in lockstep, the 'scare' propaganda, lockdowns, distancing, masks, injectables, you name it, they all acted together, controlled by a force we've yet to realise exists. Its all a centralized net of control, nothing 'local' or Sovereign exists anymore.
Except humankind...and they're coming for us, via Digital ID.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

They misrepresented a comment by Rupert Lowe in a commons debate the other day. All they seem to do is lie.

https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1989021642857603414

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

I think I laughed out loud when "BBC Verify" hit the scene -- the BBC's official "fact-checking" service. Put differently: "1984 meets clown world". And it turns out...drumroll...that "Misinformation Correspondent" Marianna Spring secured her position by lying on her CV. It doesn't get more BBC than that!

BBC’s disinformation reporter ‘lied on her CV’
The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...on-lied-on-cv/

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Peter Lloyd
@Suffragent_
Now seems a good time to revisit this absolute banger - the launch of BBC Verify in 2023!

Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring was later found to have embellished her CV. 😂😂😂

Two years on and the BBC is being sued by @realDonaldTrump
for $1billion. Ultimate FAFO.
https://x.com/Suffragent_/status/1989240383134466181

[Mari]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
I think I laughed out loud when "BBC Verify" hit the scene -- the BBC's official "fact-checking" service. Put differently: "1984 meets clown world". And it turns out...drumroll...that "Misinformation Correspondent" Marianna Spring secured her position by lying on her CV. It doesn't get more BBC than that!

BBC’s disinformation reporter ‘lied on her CV’
The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...on-lied-on-cv/

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Peter Lloyd
@Suffragent_
Now seems a good time to revisit this absolute banger - the launch of BBC Verify in 2023!

Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring was later found to have embellished her CV. 😂😂😂

Two years on and the BBC is being sued by @realDonaldTrump
for $1billion. Ultimate FAFO.
https://x.com/Suffragent_/status/1989240383134466181

It doesn't get any better than the Marianna Trench being exposed as the lying toadess that she is. She tried to stich up Richard D hall for the BBC, when he called out the hoax that was the Manchester Arena bombings. Despite numerous emails from him saying an explicit 'No!' for her requests for an 'interview' with him, she stalked him at his workplace and did a hit-piece on him anyway. He was close to the truth and need to be shut down. Hence his court case.


Edit to add...whoops, looks like I can't embed Richard's Rumble video regarding this?

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mari (here)
Edit to add...whoops, looks like I can't embed Richard's Rumble video regarding this?

If you post the raw link, then we can happily embed it for you. (It's tricky!)

[gini]

´Revealed: BBC Newsnight also doctored Trump speech ´| The Daily T. -- --

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PgKjMJd4EJ0

--18 min--Nov 13, 2025 The Daily T Podcast
A Daily T investigation has uncovered another, earlier example of the BBC doctoring footage of Trump’s January 6th speech. Not only that, but it was called out live on air by a Newsnight contributor – and nothing was done.

This comes after the resignation of top BBC officials in the wake of a Telegraph story detailing how a 2024 Panorama documentary spliced footage of the president in a way that suggested he was encouraging violence.

Camilla and Tim speak to the former graphic designer at Newsnight who blows the whistle on the workplace culture which allowed this to happen not once, but twice.

[Mari]

'Dianarama'...Andy webb's new book telling the story of how the BBC's Martin Bashir fed Diana a load of lies to get her to agree to an interview with him for the BBC's Panorama. She was terrified something was going to 'happen' to her, thanks to the lies fed to her by Bashir, and it was the reason she did the Panorama interview - to basically put her in a safer place.
This is so sad and shocking, because the author and many of her close friends and know that Diana would be alive today if she hadn't turned her back on proper protection officers, which, by the way, were NOT taken away from her because of her divorce, but because Bashir convinced her that they were not to be trusted, so she let them go, leaving her very vulnerable.
Bashir and those he worked for (BBC) deliberately isolated our former Princess Of Wales from those she trusted, utilising the insecurities of a newly divorced woman from the Palace.
A profound interview with the hosts asking real, pertinent questions, for once - as these two usually do. Its 51mins, but if you're interested in the whole Diana 'interview' thing, then it will be well worth a watch.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RQfsX9ph-a8

[Mari]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Mari (here)
Edit to add...whoops, looks like I can't embed Richard's Rumble video regarding this?

If you post the raw link, then we can happily embed it for you. (It's tricky!)

Righto, thanks Bill, here is what I've copied and pasted from the video:

https://rumble.com/v34qt38-mi5-bbc-asset-marianna-spring-stalks-journalist-in-his-workplace.html

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v325ec2

[Mari]

Posted by Mari (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Mari (here)
Edit to add...whoops, looks like I can't embed Richard's Rumble video regarding this?

If you post the raw link, then we can happily embed it for you. (It's tricky!)

Righto, thanks Bill, here is what I've copied and pasted from the video:

https://rumble.com/v34qt38-mi5-bbc-asset-marianna-spring-stalks-journalist-in-his-workplace.html

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v325ec2

Ah, thanks Bill

[Eric J (Viking)]

Latest…

Trump not standing down.

“One of the nice parts about litigation is we will find out how many times they have done it to other people."

Donald Trump has spoken about the BBC Panorama scandal - and he is clearly in no mood to back down, telling GB News that he believes he has an "obligation" to sue the corporation for $1billion.

"This is beyond fake, this is corrupt, what they did," the US President told GB News' Bev Turner when asked to describe his reaction to the wrongful BBC editing of his Jan 6 2021 speech on Capitol Hill.

Trump's comments are a disaster for the BBC which had spent much of Thursday and Friday trying to defuse the row over the BBC's edits to Trump's speech, broadcast on the eve of last November's US Presidential election.

The Panorama broadcast had showed the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to “fight like hell”, when in fact he said he would walk with them “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

Short video and further reading

https://www.gbnews.com/news/us/chris...bc-legal-fight

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

This tweet from Allison Pearson, the lady who wrote the Telegraph article seen in post #36. True when you consider that Trump probably has the very best lawyers money can buy.



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AllisonPearson
The legal “discovery” into what they did to the Trump speech is going to be excruciating for @BBCNews

All the emails and texts between managers and editors. Those US lawyers are relentless.

https://x.com/AllisonPearson/status/1989629368805761236

[Mari]

Posted by Eric J (Viking) (here)
Latest…

Trump not standing down.

“One of the nice parts about litigation is we will find out how many times they have done it to other people."

Ahh, we'll see just how far back this goes. Popcorn out!

[norman]

The BBC Wants to SPY on You, as they lose over £1 BILLION
BlackBeltBarrister - Nov 22, 2025


The BBC plans to spy on your "online viewing" as they lose over £1.1 billion in revenue. Yet, there is no statutory power that compels the public to reaffirm “No Licence Needed” (NLN) declarations every year, and no statute gives the BBC the power to shorten the reaffirmation period.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DSeyX2SxyWY

[norman]

BBC Hi-jacked our Cat Tracking Project
Pet Detective TV - Nov 28, 2025


Discover the shocking true story behind a groundbreaking cat-tracking project in Shamley Green, Surrey, and how the BBC allegedly hijacked the research, concealed the truth, and presented it as their own scientific study. This gripping account reveals betrayal, deceit, and the behind-the-scenes battle to protect original work from media manipulation.

TIMECODES
00:00 Secret life of cats
00:35 Betrayed by the BBC
00:47 The ground breaking cat tracking project
00:55 Why Shamley Green
01:10 Understanding why cats go missing
01:50 How the BBC discovered our project
02:30 BBC start to film our cat tracking project
03:00 The covert meeting revealing the BBC's plot
03:45 How the BBC obtained our tracking data
04:00 Becoming a double agent to beat the BBC
05:25 Confronting the BBC director
06:55 Meeting with BBC executive
08:00 How the BBC misled the viewer


His final words at the end were . . .

"my experience of working with the BBC reminds me of an ancient apple tree that used to stand in the middle of a field near my home constantly producing bitter fruit that hardly anybody wanted to eat"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hv75kt9B1l4

[norman]

Trump sues 'purposely dishonest' BBC for $10bn | 'They put words in my mouth' - 'Total fake news'
GBNews - Dec 16 2025

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ypJMVrYQahU

[Tintin]

Dealing with BBC deceit in general and not related to Donald Trump's new lawsuit

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Black Narrative, White Reality: How the BBC Rewrote History
Source: https://x.com/JChimirie66677/status/2001441730575364366

The BBC has been caught doing what it now does as a matter of habit: deciding the answer first, then bending reality to fit it.

The case of the so-called "first black Briton" should be a national embarrassment for BBC. A Roman-era skeleton was presented to millions as sub-Saharan African, wrapped in solemn narration and moral weight, turned into a symbol of modern identity politics. A plaque was raised. A story was fixed. The message was clear: Britain has always been what the BBC needs it to be today.

Except it wasn't true.

DNA now shows the woman was local to southern England. White. Blonde. Light-eyed. In other words, the opposite of what the BBC confidently told the country in Black and British: A Forgotten History. This wasn't a marginal detail missed in good faith. It was the central claim of a flagship documentary fronted by David Olusoga, delivered not as speculation but as fact. Science was not leading the story. It was chasing it.

This is the rot. Evidence no longer disciplines narrative; narrative disciplines evidence. The BBC didn't say "we don't yet know." It said "she's a black Briton," because that conclusion served a present-day political need. The past was not studied. It was recruited.

When the first doubts emerged, the correction didn't arrive with the same force as the original claim. There was no prime-time reckoning. No apology proportional to the certainty with which the error had been sold. The plaque came down quietly. The audience was not summoned back to be told they'd been misled. That silence is the tell.

This isn't about an honest mistake corrected by better science. It's about an institution that wants certain answers to be true, and treats uncertainty as an obstacle. Dark skin was assumed because it made the story useful. When later evidence contradicted it, the BBC adjusted without reflection, as if nothing of consequence had happened.

The pattern is familiar. Start with the moral lesson. Select the experts who won't complicate it. Present conjecture as settled truth. Then move on. Corrections, if unavoidable, are filed under "science evolves," as though the original certainty had never existed.

Public service broadcasting is meant to do the opposite. It is meant to resist the urge to preach. It is meant to hold facts above fashion. Instead, the BBC now behaves like a cultural NGO with a transmission licence, using history to launder contemporary ideology.

The result is predictable. Viewers no longer trust what they are shown, because they can see the shape of the story before the evidence appears. They know which conclusions will be favoured, which doubts will be dismissed, which past will be approved.

This is why trust drains away. Not because science advances, but because the BBC keeps mistaking storytelling for truth. It wanted a black ancestor. It found one, until DNA said otherwise. And only then did reality reassert itself.

That is not scholarship. It is narrative-first broadcasting. And until the BBC relearns the discipline of doubt, it will keep confusing belief with knowledge, and paying the price in credibility.

"DNA now shows the woman was local to southern England. White. Blonde. Light-eyed. In other words, the opposite of what the BBC confidently told the country in Black and British: A Forgotten History"

vs:

[Tintin]