Two weeks ago today the British Broadcasting Channel (BBC) launched what they call “BBC Verify,” a fact-checking service within their media empire.
“BBC News has unveiled BBC Verify to address the growing threat of disinformation and build trust with audiences through transparency,” the BBC said on a Twitter post announcing the move.
In a short post explaining Verify’s duties and goals, the BBC CEO Deborah Turness provided more insights. Before heading the BBC Turness was the President of NBC from 2013-2017. Some of her education includes attendance at St. Francis College in Letchworth, and The Knights Templar School in England.
She wrote:
We’ve brought together forensic journalists and expert talent from across the BBC, including our analysis editor Ros Atkins and disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring and their teams. In all, BBC Verify comprises about 60 journalists who will form a highly specialised operation with a range of forensic investigative skills and open source intelligence (Osint) capabilities at their fingertips.
They’ll be fact-checking, verifying video, countering disinformation, analysing data and – crucially – explaining complex stories in the pursuit of truth.
This is a different way of doing our journalism. We’ve built a physical space in the London newsroom, with a studio that BBC Verify correspondents and experts will report from, transparently sharing their evidence-gathering with our audiences. They will contribute to News Online, radio and TV, including the News Channel and our live and breaking streaming operation, both in the UK and internationally.
BBC Verify will be home to specific expertise and technology. But I want the principle of transparently explaining the “how” behind our journalism to be shared by every journalist in the BBC – and thank you to those who are experimenting with new ways to do that.
“If you know how it’s made, you can trust what it says” – that’s what our audiences have told us. Trust is earned and transparency will help us earn it.
In the launch video, one of the journalists, Marianna Spring, showcased some of the fake accounts and aliases she was using to infiltrate and interact with different people and groups online, to further pick and discover what individuals think, believe, and say.
The reported for BBC Verify also explained she was currently researching the U.K.’s “conspiracy theory movement,” and how it tapers off into alternative media other than themselves, including local and “far-right communities.”
Ms. Spring also hosts a new show called “Marianna in Conspiracyland” where she presents some of her findings.
However, nearly two weeks ago long a three-hour unedited edited clip of Spring interviewing Darren Nesbit, Editor of The Light Paper, one of these papers that the BBC and media syndicate have declared to be a “conspiracy” outlet – was leaked, which shows Spring’s behavior and full conversation, and information and soundbites that did not make it into the final cut of Spring’s program, providing added context to the discussion. The interview was conducted by Nesbit at their office. The Light Paper was created in response to the BBC’s lopsided journalism, and reporters like Spring who has been reporting on alleged conspiracy theories for the BBC for years.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This is the disinformation researcher for you at the BBC:
While the BBC’s new Verify scheme is laughable and meme worthy at best; I also mention this to remind you to be careful who you talk and interact with online, wherever. There is no such thing as anonymity and being incognito online: that is a fallacy and does not exist, sorry. However, limiting what you say is another, and so therefore use extra precaution and discretion in everything, no more than ever as censorship and thought police grow.
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Proverbs 10:19
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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precaution even on your site too , Jacob?
Precaution in general. I meant more in line with things like social media and forums, where a lot of these bots, AI, dummy accounts, and bad actors roam. Just heighten your awareness.
oh ok well i have non of those nor do i bother with them since i dont need them. but thank you for the heads up and God bless you. i keep you in my prayers.
The Antichrist system is getting set up and it’s 99 percent completed.
Also Jacob,
Will you make a report on the Chosen? They had a RAINBOW FLAG on their set. A huge dead giveaway that they are SATANIC!
sounds like more communist mafia tactics.