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Catching the BBC Pushing Fake News

(David Collier) On June 21, the BBC published a story about how Gaza's water system is broken - and how it is crippling children and making them sick. On the 19th, it published a story about how Gazan children are living "alongside rotting rubbish and rodents." On the 18th, there was a story about "a desperate mother's plea to feed her baby." It's the same story packaged 1000 different ways, as the BBC pushes out empty, skewed and fact-free propaganda articles like a drumbeat. The latest article about the water system contained images of healthy-looking parents sitting next to extremely sick children in hospital beds. Parents who clearly eat well do not let their children suffer from famine. Something else is at play. BBC ran an image of a broken child - Yunis Jumaa - next to his healthy-looking mum, who informed readers: "when he developed this malnutrition and dehyration, he became as you see him now." Yet just before the BBC published their story, Canadian CBC published the same photo, noting that Yunis had quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy.
2024-06-23 00:00:00
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