BBC Accused of Breaching Its Editorial Guidelines 1,553 Times in Israel-Hamas Coverage

The BBC has been accused of breaching its editorial guidelines 1,533 times in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, with the UK outlet allegedly showing repeated bias against the Jewish state, according to a new report. 

Trevor Asserson, a British-born lawyer based in Israel, said a team of 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists analyzed 9 million words from the BBC using artificial intelligence to discover a “deeply worrying pattern of bias against Israel,” another British media outlet said. 

The research said the BBC associated Israel with genocide 14 times more than Hamas, with the publicly funded outlet allegedly downplaying the role of Hamas terrorism in the war. 

Along with accusing the BBC of showing bias against Israel in the war coverage, the AI-backed report also claimed that the Jewish state was ultimately presented as a “militaristic and aggressive nation” by the outlet. Meanwhile, the BBC allegedly failed to recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization 12,050 times during the initial four-month period when the war broke out. 

The BBC’s Arabic Channel was also singled out in the report as one of the “most biased” outlets covering the war in Gaza. The BBC said it would “carefully consider” Asserson’s report, but the outlet also questioned the researcher’s methodology and use of AI. (NYP / VFI News)

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