The broadcaster allegedly breached its own guidelines more than 1,500 times at the height of the Gaza conflict
The BBC has displayed a “deeply worrying pattern of bias” against Israel while covering the early phase of hostilities in Gaza, according to a new report publicized by The Telegraph on Saturday.
The study, led by Trevor Asserson, a British-born lawyer based in Israel, analyzed four months of the BBC’s broadcast early in the conflict, examining its output on television, radio, podcasts, websites, and social media. The research team involved around 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists, who used artificial intelligence to process nine million words of output from the broadcaster.
“The findings reveal a deeply worrying pattern of bias and multiple breaches by the BBC of its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, fairness and establishing the truth,” the report said, as quoted by The Telegraph.
According to the study, the broadcaster…