BBC LIES

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The BBC isn’t exposing disinformation. It’s peddling it

The state broadcaster says its new Verify service will subject its own journalism to more rigorous fact-checking. But a far less neutral agenda appears to be concealed …

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“It is worth remembering that it was the BBC’s all-too-real Ministry of Information, where George Orwell worked during World War Two, that became the model for the fictional ‘Ministry of Truth’ in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four …

“A state broadcaster telling the public that it has special insights into truth - and anyone who disagrees is dangerously promoting ‘disinformation’ - has a long and ugly pedigree.



“Far from prioritising ‘independence’ as it proclaims, the BBC was originally set up as a vehicle for promoting British establishment interests, as its founder confided in a diary entry in 1926 … Lord Reith wrote of the British government: ‘They know they can trust us not to be really impartial’ …

“A batch of leaked documents, published by the Grayzone website in 2021, showed that the BBC had joined efforts, in the words of the Foreign Office, to ‘weaken the Russian state’s influence on its near neighbours’.

“How does that square with BBC claims of impartiality in covering the subsequent war in Ukraine?

“… [The] very idea of bestowing the title of ‘disinformation expert’ on a journalist is ‘a fraud, a scam’ meant to falsely impart a scientific basis to their highly partisan role …

“In the wake of 9/11, the BBC, like the rest of the establishment media, embraced a rash of pundits, often with hidden government or security industry ties, who branded themselves ‘counterterrorism experts’.

“Invariably their job was to explain why the West should invade foreign countries … from Iraq to Libya and Syria …

“Now the 2020s looks set to be the decade when the BBC cuts out the middleman and subjects us to a parade of its own employees posturing as ‘counter-disinformation experts’ …



“We already know how this works. Show solidarity with Palestinians against the apartheid rule of Israel … and you are dubbed an ‘antisemite’.

“Question the legality of the West firing missiles at a sovereign Middle Eastern state like Syria … and you are denounced as an ‘Assad apologist’.

“Prioritise peace talks to end the Ukraine war rather than promote a bloodbath … and you are outed as a ‘Kremlin asset’, one echoing ‘Putin talking points’.

”The agenda always neatly fits the interests of western establishments: obscuring the crimes committed by the West and its allies, and justifying the West’s crimes to weaken supposed enemies …

“[And] ‘disinformation’ is not just about actively spreading lies. It is about leaving absences of information …

“BBC Verify … appears to mark a turning point, when journalists themselves become the ones hawking the deceptions … journalists [serving] a national security state …”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-bbc-exposing-disinformation-peddling