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BBC Declines to Respond to Allegations Its Own Disinformation Factcheckers Are… Spreading Disinformation



The BBC has failed to respond to allegations of spreading fake news on its new disinformation division’s flagship podcast Marianna in Conspiracyland.

The BBC was given several opportunities to respond to allegations of fake news but, at the time of writing, has not. The claims concern alleged fake news spread by Disinformation and Social Media correspondent Marianna Spring about former UKIP MEP candidate and host of the Lotus Eaters podcast, Carl Benjamin.

In the very first instalment of BBC Radio 4’s Marianna in Conspiracyland podcast, which detailed the supposed radicalisation of people in the sleepy town of Totnes in Western England, Spring falsely claimed that Benjamin’s YouTube channel Sargon of Akkad is currently suspended by the platform. Although the British conservative political commentator is currently more active on his Lotus Eaters channel, his original YouTube channel is not blocked and is still occasionally used by Benjamin. The channel was reportedly demonetised by YouTube in 2019.

Spring then claimed that Mr Benjamin had travelled to Totnes as a part of his campaign for the European Parliament in 2019 with former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Although Yiannopoulos did appear with Benjamin in the town of Truro during the campaign, a four-hour live stream of the event in Totnes filmed by Benjamin does not show Yiannopoulos at the event in question.

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I have managed to obtain an application form for those who would like to work for the BBC. As you might expect the form is very simple – all you have to do is to read the questions and decide whether your answer is YES or NO. Add up the number of times you answer YES.
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1. Do you ride a bicycle and have a camera fitted to your helmet?
   
   
2. Are you a communist?
   
   
3. Have you had at least three covid-19 jabs?
   
   
4. Are you a good liar?
   
   
5. Would you describe yourself as either illiterate or innumerate or both? (If you have difficulties with the question just answer YES.)
   
   
6. Is it your ambition to hobnob with famous people in Davos and Wimbledon in the same year?
   
   
7. Do you love the European Union?
   
   
8. Were you devastated by the result of the Brexit vote?
   
   
9. Do people who know you well describe you as a snotty bugger with no sense of humour?
   
   
10. Do you spend at least four hours a week arranging your recycling?
    
    
11. Do you believe that the earth is flat and that if you travel too far you will fall off the edge?
    
    
12. Would you betray friends and family for a pat on the head from the Director General and/or Gary Lineker?
    
    
13. Has anyone ever complained that you are a sex pest?
    
    
14. Would you describe BBC superstars Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile as heroes?
    
    
15. Do you believe that it is important to suppress truths if they might upset very powerful people?
    

Read More: Application Form for a Job with the BBC

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When it comes to temperatures in Italy, BBC lies and lies and then lies some more


Italian architect and film producer Robin Monotti has been highlighting dubious claims made by the BBC about temperatures in Italy in recent weeks.  The BBC was not happy and its “climate change disinformation specialist” did a hit piece on him.  Monotti fact-checked BBC’s article and pointed out its false claims, yet again.

On 19 July, BBC Weather tweeted: “Another scorching day ahead in southern Europe.  Whilst temperatures won’t be as high as yesterday in northern Spain, we could see highs of 46 or 47C for the islands of Sardinia and Sicily. #europeheatwave”  The tweet has had 1,6 million views.

The same day,  Monotti tweeted: “BBC tweets a temperature for Sicily which is 10°C HIGHER than the BBC app for Palermo, Sicily. What’s going on?”  His tweet has been viewed 1,1 million times.

On the same day BBC was tweeting temperatures of 47oC while its app was displaying 37oC, No Tricks Zone explained in an article what had happened.  The #europeheatwave hysteria started when climate sensationalist media outlets, such as Relotius Spiegel, uncritically cited a sloppily and manipulatively formulated 13 July report from the European Space Agency (“ESA”).  ESA’s report first referred to “air” temperature and then later specified that it was, in fact, referring to surface temperature.

Surface temperature refers to the temperature right at the ground surface.  Usually, weather reports use “air” temperatures which are measured two metres above the ground.  The surface temperature is much hotter than the air temperature.  In Sicily the temperature reached only 32°C over the weekend of 15 and 16 July – a far cry from 48°C reported, which illustrates the huge difference between ground surface temperature and readings taken two metres above the ground.

Read more: When it comes to temperatures in Italy, BBC lies and lies and then lies some more

[Steve]

The BBC Misinformation Expert Lied … imagine my shock

https://youtu.be/AZb6sHmuUbs?si=qD1V0A4E4eoe3nvb